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Auction: 4002 - The Marshall Collection of British & World Coins
Lot: 49

Kings of All England, Aethelstan (924-939), circumscription cross type, Penny, 1.55g., Chester, Wulfstan, aedelstan rex to br, small cross pattée within inner circle, rev., vvlfstan mo legcf, small cross pattée within inner circle, crescent in field (Blunt 158 (this coin referred to); N.672; S.1093), lightly creased, with a deep black tone, very fine, very rare with crescent in field Estimate £ 500-600 provenance: P W P Carlyon-Britton, Sotheby, 20 November 1916, lot 965 G C Drabble, Glendining, 4 July 1939, lot 409 Spink Numismatic Circlular, January 1943, no.17801 £9-0-0

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