The ‘Good Money’ Collection of Irish Hammered Coins

Hiberno-Scandinavian period, Phase I, c. 995-1020, Sihtric, Penny, ‘Lincoln’, Osgut, in imitation of Long Cross coinage, in the name of Sihtric, draped bust left, pellet and rosette behind, sihtrc re+ dyflnm, rev. osgvh mo lino, long voided cross, nothing in angles, 1.49g/3h (SCBI BM –; SCBI Copenhagen –; SCBI Ulster –; Roth –; S 6104; DF 6). Slightly peckmarked, otherwise better than very fine, excessively rare and apparently unrecorded in the main references £1,500-£2,000

Dr A.N. Brushfield Collection, Glendining Auction, 28 March 1940, lot 132 (part); S.N. Lane Collection, Spink Auction 23, 21 September 1982, lot 6; W.J. Conte Collection; bt C.J. Denton

Dolley lists a Lincoln reverse of the moneyer Steinbit while Osgut is published with a Huntingdon mint signature (SCBI BM p.122)