Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

Edward the Elder (899-924), Penny, Portrait type [HP 1, Winchester], Beornwold, eadvveard rex, diademed bust left within inner circle, rev. beorn pold mo in two lines divided by three crosses, pellet above and below, 1.49g/1h (Vatican Hoard 421 and pl. VI, this coin; CTCE 6 and pl. II, 17 this coin; N 651; S 1084). Double-struck, flan ragged and chipped in places, otherwise very fine, toned with traces of find patina, rare
£900-£1,200

From the ‘Vatican’ Hoard, c. 1928; Glendining Auction, 13 November 1930, lot 27; Dolman Collection; SCMB September 1978 (E490); Royal Berkshire Collection