The Collection of the late Dr Don Gerrard

Danelaw, After Alfred the Great’s Two Line type, Penny, copying Mercian dies, Eadwald, ælfred re+ irregularly spaced around small cross pattée, rev. eadvvald in two lines divided by pellet and two trefoils, 1.38g/6h (BMC 277, same rev. die; N 475/1; S 966). Good very fine and handsomely toned over sound metal; of quite reasonable weight and style and so presumably an early product of the Danelaw, rare thus £1,200-£1,500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of the late Dr Don Gerrard.

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From the Collection of the late Dr Don Gerrard