The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins formed by Marvin Lessen Part I

Kings of All England, Eadgar, Penny, Circumscription Cross type [Southern Group], Southampton, Landbeorht, eadga · r rex anglorv : around small cross pattée, rev. landbrvht m¯o nant around small cross pattée, 1.51g/3h (Lessen, SNC April 2003, no. 2, this coin; CTCE –; BMC –; N 749; S 1135). Concave flan, bright appearance, very fine and of the highest rarity; perhaps the only known specimen £2,000-3,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins.

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Provenance: Bt CNG November 1994.

This coin, and that in the next lot, is part of a group of two dozen or so pieces that appeared on the market in both England and the USA in the early 1990s, and which almost certainly have a Hampshire provenance. Mr Lessen’s detective work shows that the group probably contained four Southampton mint-signed coins and might have been unearthed as a result of the construction of the extension to the M3 motorway at the time