Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Æthelred II (978-1016), Small CRVX type, Melton Mowbray, Cetel, : cetel m¯o medel, 1.13g/9h (BEH –; N 770 var.; S 1149). Better than very fine, excessively rare
£3,000-£4,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The ‘Millennium’ Hoard of Æthelred II Pennies and cut Halfpence from Suffolk.

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One of a pair of unpublished coins of the moneyer Cetel for the mint of Melton Mowbray, struck from different obverse and reverse dies. Mark Blackburn in BNJ 2000, pp.143-6, discusses the attribution of coins with the mint signature medeltvn to Melton Mowbray, altering Dolley’s previous attribution of a fragment reading med to Peterborough (Medeshamstede). Apart from Dolley’s fragment which was a First Hand type of the moneyer Hild, a second example of this coin is now in the Fitzwiliam Museum, having been found in Hampshire in 1999. An unspecified type of Æthelred II with the uncertain name Piztan derives from a 19th century hoard from Quendale (Shetland) and is now unfortunately lost. The fourth known specimen is a Cnut Quatrefoil type of the moneyer Leofdæg in the Berlin Museum Collection (SCBI 36, 650)