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Auction: 19026 - The Williams Collection Part IV - Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 599

(x) Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, 1.15g, Last Small Cross type, London, Eadsi, æÐelræd rex ang°l:, laureate and draped bust left, rev. + ea•dsi m¯o lvn•ii, small cross pattée (SCBI 25 (Helsinki) 513, same dies; Hildebrand 440, same dies, as Dunwich; N.777; S.1154), from worn dies, very fine

provenance:
CNG auction 70, 21 September 2005, lot 1252
Conte, Triton VI, 14-15 January 2003, lot 1342

Offered as a coin of Dunwich in Triton VI, but reattributed to London in CNG auction 70.
The coin was originally attributed to the mint of Dunwich by Hildebrand and this attribution was supported by Parsons in 'The Dunwich Mint', BNJ IX (1912), pp.119-128. The attribution was refuted by Dolley in 'A Note on the Mythical Mint of Dunwich' in SNC November 1955, p.470, where he noted that the coin was a reverse die duplicate of Hildebrand 2365 which was a London coin. 'The L of London admittedly having the semblance of being cut in over another letter.'
On the authority of that note, both North and Seaby removed Dunwich from their lists of Anglo-Saxon mints. This coin, also struck from worn dies, shows clearly how the error had arisen.

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£520