The Collection of Anglo-Saxon and Earlier Hammered Coins formed by the late Captain 'Peter' Arnot

Eadberht Praen (796-798), KINGS OF KENT, Eadberht Praen (796-798), eadbearht rex in three lines, divided by plain lines, reverse dvda in two lines, divided by a double row of pellets, semi circles with crosses in centres, pellets in each angle, at either side, other pellets in fields, 1.31 gms (N. 202/1; S. 875; BLS —). Very fine, extremely rare, the variety excessively so (£4,000-5,000)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Anglo-Saxon and Earlier Hammered Coins formed by the late Captain 'Peter' Arnot.

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Blunt, Lyon and Stewart (“The Coinage of Southern England 796-840”, BNJ 1963) record only twelve other coins of this king: four in the British Museum (two in BMC); one in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (SCBI Oxford 37); one in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (SCBI Cambridge 429); one in the Hunter Collection, Glasgow (SCBI Glasgow 384); and five in private collections