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Auction: 19026 - The Williams Collection Part IV - Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 478

(x) Mercia, Ceolwulf I (821-823), Penny, 1.13g, 9h, portrait type, c.810-821, East Anglian mint (Ipswich?), Hereberht, + ceolvvlf - rex m, diademed and draped bust right, the bust represented by four straight lines breaking the solid inner circle, rev. her / ebe +/ rht, in three lines, divided by lines with crook at each end, the letters her inverted (Naismith E17i this coin; N.392; S.927), edge chipped between 3 and 6 o'clock, fine, the portrait very clear, very rare

provenance:
Spink auction 175, 28-29 September 2005, lot 1307
Spink Numismatic Circular, April 1991, no. 1789
Spink Numismatic Circular, October 1989, no. 5343
Grantly, Glendining, 22 March 1944, lot 858
Murdoch, Sotheby, 31 March 1903, lot 29
Montagu, Sotheby, 18-23 November 1895, lot 262
Marsham-Townshend, Sotheby, 19 November 1888, lot 81

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