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Auction: 4002 - The Marshall Collection of British & World Coins
Lot: 41

Kings of Wessex, Aethelberht (858-865/6), Penny, 1.19g., inscribed cross type, Winbearht, aedelbearht rex, bare-headed bust right breaking inner circle, rev., vvnbearht moneta on and between limbs of a voided cross (N.620; S.1053), a minute edge crack at 10 o'clock, otherwise a sound coin with an unusually well struck portrait, toned, almost extremely fine, rare, the moneyer apparently unrecorded for this reign Estimate £ 600-800 provenance: Spink Numismatic Circular, October 1942, no.16357 £3-0-0

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