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Auction: 4002 - The Marshall Collection of British & World Coins
Lot: 45

Kings of Wessex, Edward the Elder (899-924), North Western mint, Penny, 1.61g., flower type, Buga, eadvveard rex, small cross pattée within inner circle, rev., bvga enclosed in branch each side of floreate stem (BLS 327d (this coin); N.660; S.1079), lightly double struck on obverse, evenly toned, almost extremely fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 3,000-4,000 provenance: H Montagu, Sotheby, 8 November 1895, lot 592 F McClean ('Astronomer'), Sotheby, 11 June 1906, lot 163 L E Bruun, Sotheby, 18 May 1925, lot 78 G C Drabble, Glendining, 4 July 1939, lot 402 Spink Numismatic Circular, July 1942, no.15395 £50-0-0

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