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Auction: 4002 - The Marshall Collection of British & World Coins
Lot: 43

Kings of Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), third coinage, Penny, 1.47g., portrait type, London, aelfred rex, diademed bust right of unusually sensitive style, rev., Londonia monogram, cross pattée above, pyramid of thirteen pellets below (N.644; S.1061), some dark deposit by D of Londonia, a tiny edge flake at 3 o'clock, otherwise a most attractive full coin, deeply toned, almost extremely fine, rare Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 provenance: Spink Numismatic Circular, August-September 1943, no.21611 £8-0-0

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