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Auction: 25124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 43: British and World Coins and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 5

Alfred the Great (874-899), 'Guthrum' (Two-Line) Type, Penny, c. 880-890, Lincoln, Herebeorht, [...]ER EL[...], small cross pattée in inner circle, rev. HIB | [...]EB | [...], inscription in three lines, 0.82g [12.65grns], 5h [?] (cf. Noonans, 12 February 2020, lot 253; North 469; S.966), a large fragment of excellent fabric, with a pastille-grey field patina, very fine and very rare, the variant previously unrecorded

Provenance

~ Found at Long Bennington, South Kesteven (Lincolnshire), April 2025


~ Recorded with the British Museum (ref. PAS LEIC-F9B626) ~


~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum (ref. EMC 2025.0199) ~

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