Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVIII – Sessions 1-4 . 1054 Numistats ref: 673543
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The Sidney W. Harl & Kenneth W. Harl Collection
Category
ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (23mm, 1.62 g, 6h). Small cross/Horizontal-Trefoil 1 (HT 1) type (BMC i). North-Eastern I dies; Winele, moneyer. ÆÐELSTAN REX, small cross pattée / PINE/LE MO in two lines; three crosses between, trefoil above and below. Blunt, Aethelstan 408; SCBI 34 (BM), 234-6; North 668; SCBC 1089. Richly toned. VF.
From the Sidney W. Harl & Kenneth W. Harl Collection, purchased from C. Wolfe, April 1975.
Aethelstan (924-939), King of Wessex, succeeded his father Edward the Elder. Aethelstan was the first king of Wessex to style himself on his coins rex totius Britanniae – “King of all Britain” – after King Constantine II of Alba (Scotland), King Hywel Dda of Deheubarth (Wales), Earl Ealdred of Bamburgh (Northumbria), and King Owain of Strathclyde all accepted Aethelstan as their overlord at Eamont on 12 July 927. Description
From the Sidney W. Harl & Kenneth W. Harl Collection, purchased from C. Wolfe, April 1975.
Aethelstan (924-939), King of Wessex, succeeded his father Edward the Elder. Aethelstan was the first king of Wessex to style himself on his coins rex totius Britanniae – “King of all Britain” – after King Constantine II of Alba (Scotland), King Hywel Dda of Deheubarth (Wales), Earl Ealdred of Bamburgh (Northumbria), and King Owain of Strathclyde all accepted Aethelstan as their overlord at Eamont on 12 July 927. Description
VF
Grade
575.25 EUR
Starting
958.75 EUR
Estimate
EUR
Realized