Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVIII – Sessions 1-4 . 1056 Numistats ref: 673545

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The Sidney W. Harl & Kenneth W. Harl Collection Categoria
ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (21mm, 1.22 g, 7h). ‘Church’ type (BMC iv). York mint; Adalbert, moneyer. +AEDELSTAN RX (three triangles), small cross pattée / Steep-roofed building on ground line; MO N flanking, ADELBERT over trefoil in exergue. Blunt, Aethelstan 439 (this coin illustrated); SCBI –; North 683; SCBC 1100 (plate coin in previous editions). Deeply toned. VF. Extremely rare.


From the Sidney W. Harl & Kenneth W. Harl Collection. Ex M.A. Sinton Collection (Triton III, 30 November 1999), lot 1477; P. Finn FPL (Winter 1994/95), no. 47; R.C. Lockett Collection (Part IV, Glendining, 26 April 1960), lot 3683; L.E. Bruun Collection (Sotheby & Co., 14 May 1925), lot 93; P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 19 November 1913), lot 377.

The Tower type of Aethelstan is unparalleled in his coinage. Christopher Blunt posited that it may have been an ecclesiastical issue, struck for Hrothweard, Archbishop of York, between Aethelstan's capture of the city in 927 and the Archbishop's death in 931. If this is the case, the tower on the reverse is likely to be a depiction of York Minster.
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