Special Collections

Sold on 21 March 1995

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

Captain 'Peter’ Arnot

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№ 182

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21 March 1995

Hammer Price:
£250

Æthelred II (978-1016), Æthelred II, Last Small Cross type, Last Issue, Walgist, Thetford, PELGIST MON DEOD, with four crosses around reverse cross, ‘East Anglian’ style bust, 1.34 gms (BMC 386 [pl. xvi, 13], different dies; N. 779; Hild. Ac, 3825). About very fine, but some patches of weakness to marginal legends and a little buckled, very rare (£300-400)

Ex “Polish Find”, Glendinings’s 14th March 1973 (24)