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Danish E Anglia: St Edmund, St Edmund Memorial coinage, Penny, Vidit, sicaveo around a, rev. vidit mo around cross, 0.72g/12h (N 485; S 962). Slightly chipped, otherwise very fine and scarce (£150-200)

Provenance:
Sir John Evans Collection
R.C. Lockett Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 6-9 June 1955, lot 421
Dr B. Bird Collection, Glendining Auction, 20 November 1974, lot 64
L.R. Stack Collection, Sotheby Auction, 22-3 April 1999, lot 362

In the past this coin has always been catalogued as a halfpenny. Current numismatic opinion suggests that the coin is too heavy for a halfpenny and that it is in fact a late (post-Cuerdale) light-weight penny