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Kings of East Anglia, Æthelstan (825-40), Penny, Damoairae, +edelstani around beaded inner...
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Kings of East Anglia, Æthelstan (825-40), Penny, Damoairae, +edelstani around beaded inner circle containing large a with pellet on either side, rev. +dmddairae around beaded inner circle containing cross pattée, 1.21g/3h (Naismith E33b, this coin; D. H. Haigh, 1845 pl. 1, 10, this coin; Pagan, BNJ 1982, p. 66, this coin; N –; S 950). Long ago broken, otherwise very fine, excessively rare and with exceptional pedigree £400-£500
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Provenance: J. Kenyon Collection, Preston, John Burton, 15-19 December 1851, lot 226; A. Briggs Collection, Sotheby Auction, 22-5 March 1893, lot 180; G.J. Bascom Collection, Sotheby, 15 June 1914, lot 26; P. Arnot Collection, BDW Auction 11, 21 March 1995, lot 49
Naismith lists only two examples of this type by this moneyer, one which formed part of the Briggs and Bascom cabinets and another which formed of the Kenyon collection. The Bascom cataloguer described that coin as having been ‘fractured and repaired’ and gives the weight as 18.75 grains [1.21g]. The same coin was simply described as ‘fine’ in the Briggs catalogue and we can assume that the damage and subsequent restoration occurred between 1893 and 1914.
Unfortunately, the coin in question was not illustrated in either sale. However, our coin’s identical weight and corresponding condition allow us to be confident in recognising it as the Bascom coin.
Hugh Pagan (BNJ 52, p.66-7) allowed the possibility that the Bascom coin was also one and the same as that offered as part of Joseph Kenyon’s Collection in 1851, with the caveat that their respective auction catalogue descriptions differ in relation to the placement of pellets in the obverse legend. Fortunately for our purposes, the Kenyon specimen was illustrated (in the form of a line drawing) in Haigh’s An essay on the numismatic history of the ancient kingdom of the East Angles. Our coin is certainly struck from the same reverse die as the Kenyon coin (note the filled ‘E’ at the end of the moneyer’s name) whilst the arrangement of pellets on the obverse is seemingly identical. One final feature of note is that the line drawing is explicit in showing the reverse of Kenyon’s coins as being struck slightly off-centre of the reverse, resulting in a small lip of extra metal beyond the beaded border running from around 10 to 2 o’clock and the loss of the beaded border off the bottom of the coin. The same feature arrangement is to be found on our coin, although somewhat obscured by its subsequent repair.
We must imagine therefore that the Bascom cataloguer simply slipped when he described the coin’s obverse, and that in all of these instances the same, unique coin is being described.
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Provenance: J. Kenyon Collection, Preston, John Burton, 15-19 December 1851, lot 226; A. Briggs Collection, Sotheby Auction, 22-5 March 1893, lot 180; G.J. Bascom Collection, Sotheby, 15 June 1914, lot 26; P. Arnot Collection, BDW Auction 11, 21 March 1995, lot 49
Naismith lists only two examples of this type by this moneyer, one which formed part of the Briggs and Bascom cabinets and another which formed of the Kenyon collection. The Bascom cataloguer described that coin as having been ‘fractured and repaired’ and gives the weight as 18.75 grains [1.21g]. The same coin was simply described as ‘fine’ in the Briggs catalogue and we can assume that the damage and subsequent restoration occurred between 1893 and 1914.
Unfortunately, the coin in question was not illustrated in either sale. However, our coin’s identical weight and corresponding condition allow us to be confident in recognising it as the Bascom coin.
Hugh Pagan (BNJ 52, p.66-7) allowed the possibility that the Bascom coin was also one and the same as that offered as part of Joseph Kenyon’s Collection in 1851, with the caveat that their respective auction catalogue descriptions differ in relation to the placement of pellets in the obverse legend. Fortunately for our purposes, the Kenyon specimen was illustrated (in the form of a line drawing) in Haigh’s An essay on the numismatic history of the ancient kingdom of the East Angles. Our coin is certainly struck from the same reverse die as the Kenyon coin (note the filled ‘E’ at the end of the moneyer’s name) whilst the arrangement of pellets on the obverse is seemingly identical. One final feature of note is that the line drawing is explicit in showing the reverse of Kenyon’s coins as being struck slightly off-centre of the reverse, resulting in a small lip of extra metal beyond the beaded border running from around 10 to 2 o’clock and the loss of the beaded border off the bottom of the coin. The same feature arrangement is to be found on our coin, although somewhat obscured by its subsequent repair.
We must imagine therefore that the Bascom cataloguer simply slipped when he described the coin’s obverse, and that in all of these instances the same, unique coin is being described.
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Kings of East Anglia, Æthelstan (825-40), Penny, Damoairae, +edelstani around beaded inner circle containing large a with pellet on either side, rev. +dmddairae around beaded inner circle containing cross pattée, 1.21g/3h (Naismith E33b, this coin; D. H. Haigh, 1845 pl. 1, 10, this coin; Pagan, BNJ 1982, p. 66, this coin; N –; S 950). Long ago broken, otherwise very fine, excessively rare and with exceptional pedigree £400-£500
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Provenance: J. Kenyon Collection, Preston, John Burton, 15-19 December 1851, lot 226; A. Briggs Collection, Sotheby Auction, 22-5 March 1893, lot 180; G.J. Bascom Collection, Sotheby, 15 June 1914, lot 26; P. Arnot Collection, BDW Auction 11, 21 March 1995, lot 49
Naismith lists only two examples of this type by this moneyer, one which formed part of the Briggs and Bascom cabinets and another which formed of the Kenyon collection. The Bascom cataloguer described that coin as having been ‘fractured and repaired’ and gives the weight as 18.75 grains [1.21g]. The same coin was simply described as ‘fine’ in the Briggs catalogue and we can assume that the damage and subsequent restoration occurred between 1893 and 1914.
Unfortunately, the coin in question was not illustrated in either sale. However, our coin’s identical weight and corresponding condition allow us to be confident in recognising it as the Bascom coin.
Hugh Pagan (BNJ 52, p.66-7) allowed the possibility that the Bascom coin was also one and the same as that offered as part of Joseph Kenyon’s Collection in 1851, with the caveat that their respective auction catalogue descriptions differ in relation to the placement of pellets in the obverse legend. Fortunately for our purposes, the Kenyon specimen was illustrated (in the form of a line drawing) in Haigh’s An essay on the numismatic history of the ancient kingdom of the East Angles. Our coin is certainly struck from the same reverse die as the Kenyon coin (note the filled ‘E’ at the end of the moneyer’s name) whilst the arrangement of pellets on the obverse is seemingly identical. One final feature of note is that the line drawing is explicit in showing the reverse of Kenyon’s coins as being struck slightly off-centre of the reverse, resulting in a small lip of extra metal beyond the beaded border running from around 10 to 2 o’clock and the loss of the beaded border off the bottom of the coin. The same feature arrangement is to be found on our coin, although somewhat obscured by its subsequent repair.
We must imagine therefore that the Bascom cataloguer simply slipped when he described the coin’s obverse, and that in all of these instances the same, unique coin is being described.
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Provenance: J. Kenyon Collection, Preston, John Burton, 15-19 December 1851, lot 226; A. Briggs Collection, Sotheby Auction, 22-5 March 1893, lot 180; G.J. Bascom Collection, Sotheby, 15 June 1914, lot 26; P. Arnot Collection, BDW Auction 11, 21 March 1995, lot 49
Naismith lists only two examples of this type by this moneyer, one which formed part of the Briggs and Bascom cabinets and another which formed of the Kenyon collection. The Bascom cataloguer described that coin as having been ‘fractured and repaired’ and gives the weight as 18.75 grains [1.21g]. The same coin was simply described as ‘fine’ in the Briggs catalogue and we can assume that the damage and subsequent restoration occurred between 1893 and 1914.
Unfortunately, the coin in question was not illustrated in either sale. However, our coin’s identical weight and corresponding condition allow us to be confident in recognising it as the Bascom coin.
Hugh Pagan (BNJ 52, p.66-7) allowed the possibility that the Bascom coin was also one and the same as that offered as part of Joseph Kenyon’s Collection in 1851, with the caveat that their respective auction catalogue descriptions differ in relation to the placement of pellets in the obverse legend. Fortunately for our purposes, the Kenyon specimen was illustrated (in the form of a line drawing) in Haigh’s An essay on the numismatic history of the ancient kingdom of the East Angles. Our coin is certainly struck from the same reverse die as the Kenyon coin (note the filled ‘E’ at the end of the moneyer’s name) whilst the arrangement of pellets on the obverse is seemingly identical. One final feature of note is that the line drawing is explicit in showing the reverse of Kenyon’s coins as being struck slightly off-centre of the reverse, resulting in a small lip of extra metal beyond the beaded border running from around 10 to 2 o’clock and the loss of the beaded border off the bottom of the coin. The same feature arrangement is to be found on our coin, although somewhat obscured by its subsequent repair.
We must imagine therefore that the Bascom cataloguer simply slipped when he described the coin’s obverse, and that in all of these instances the same, unique coin is being described.
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