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

Æthelstan (924-939), kings of wessex, Æthelstan, Bust Crowned type, æDELSTAN REX, crowned bust right, reverse DiORVVALD Mo To ciV, small cross pattée, 1.12 gms (N. 675; S. 1084). Obverse very fine, reverse nearly so, believed to be the only known specimen (£600-800)

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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Not recorded by Blunt as a mint signed coin for this type, but a coin of Diarwald (crowned bust type) is known (Blunt 316). It may be a coin of Canterbury, though these are normally signed dor ci[vi], or perhaps Rochester, but both attributions are tentative