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Auction: 24124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 36: British and World Coins and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 1513

(x) Æthelræd II 'Unræd' (978-1016), 'Long Cross' Type, Penny, 997-1003, Lydford, Goda, + ÆÐELRÆD REX ANGLO, NG ligate, O with three wedges, bare headed bust left to edge of flan, hair with twenty strands, pellet behind neck, five horizontal folds to drapery, no inner circle or sceptre, rev. + GODA MOO LYD•A, voided long cross with pellet in centre and triple crescent ends dividing legend, 1.61g [24.85grns], 3h (Hildebrand 3056 [Type D]; SCBI 9 [Oxford, Part I], 551-552 same dies; SCBI 24 [West Country], 544 same dies; SCBI 52 [Uppsala], 238 same reverse die; MEC 8 [Fitzwilliam], 1910; Brettell 450 this coin; North 774; BMC IVa; S.1151), brighter appearance since last offered, with occasional peck marks, on a brighter planchet, otherwise near very fine, rare, especially for type

Provenance

The Steve J Green Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins [with his tickets and envelope]

Allan Williams, Part IV, Spink 259, 29 January 2019, lot 567 - £280
Spink Numismatic Circular, May 1993, no. 2601 - "about VF"- £195

R P V Brettell, Glendining, 8 March 1990, lot 450* - £130

Alfred J V Radford F.S.A, Sotheby's, 12 June 1944, lot 34 [part]


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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£200