REVIEW: GRAHAM COLLECTION OF BRITISH IRON AGE AND HAMMERED COINS 9 MARCH

As expected, bidders competed strongly for the outstanding lot of the Graham Collection, an extremely rare Danelaw Penny, after Alfred the Great of Wessex’s London Monogram series. It left a top estimate of £12,000 behind to sell for £14,000.

Other highlights included a Penny for Edward the Martyr (975-978), which took £9,000, a Crowned Bust type Penny for Eadmund (939-946), probably struck at a mint in East Anglia, that sold for £7,500; a Penny for Offa (757-96), King of Mercia, struck by the moneyer Wihtraed in East Anglia, possibly Ipswich, and found in 1995 at Great Hockham in Norfolk, which took £7,000; and another for Eadgar (959-975), which also made £7,000.

The 120-lot collection extends back in time to the Iron Age and forwards to the Commonwealth, culminating in a gold unite from 1651, which sold for £8,000.

Noonans’ Head of Coins, Tim Wilkes, said: “We had high hopes for this collection, which was built over the years with much discernment, and we were not disappointed with the outcome, We are delighted to see these exceptional coins go to appreciative new homes.”