The May Fair Hotel, Stratton Street, Mayfair, London, W1J 8LT, United Kingdom
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LOT 3411:
Anglo-Saxon Coins Alfred the Great - Liafwald - Cross-and-Lozenge Penny
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Start price:
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1,080
Estimated price :
$1,200 - $1,700
Buyer's Premium: 30%
VAT: 8.875%
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Anglo-Saxon Coins Alfred the Great - Liafwald - Cross-and-Lozenge Penny
875-880 AD
Second coinage, BMC type v. Obv: profile bust right with +ELFRED REX legend. Rev: cross-in-lozenge over beaded long cross with crossbars at angles of lozenge dividing LIA FVA LD MON legend for the moneyer Liafwald. 3.28 grams. Near as struck; chipped at edge and cracked across. Very rare.
Provenance
Found near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 2018.
Literature
S. 1058; N. 629; cf. SCBI 67 (BM Anglo-Saxon II) 1427 (same dies?).
Footnotes
This issue shares a reverse type contemporaneously with coins of Ceolwulf II (874-879 AD, see Spink 944), including dies for the moneyer form Liofwald.
