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Auction: 4002 - The Marshall Collection of British & World Coins
Lot: 48

Kings of Wessex, Edward the Elder, two-line type, Penny, 1.59g., HT1, Deorwald, eadvveard rex, small cross pattée within inner circle, rev., deorvvald mo in two lines, trefoil of pellets above and below, three crosses pattée between (N.649; S.1087), faint scratches in obverse field, good very fine or better Estimate £ 400-500 provenance: Spink Numismatic Circular, November 1944, no.27624 £2-5-0 The unique Edward the Elder two-line penny struck in gold, in the Musee Cantonal, Lausanne, was struck by the moneyer Deorwald, BNJ 25 pp.277-81

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