Description
Danish East Anglia, St. Edmund memorial penny (c.895-910) Widbold moneyer. Large chevron barred A within inner linear circle, three pellets, two flanking and one within the barred A, legend surrounds +SCEADMVNDRE : Rev, cross pattée, inside linear circle, three pellets struck in second quarter, reading +VVIDBVLD MONE, 1.32g (S.960; N.483; SCBI 24, Coin 355, Plate XI). Struck on an especially broad flan, with legible legends both sides. The pellets clear both in the A and on the reverse second quarter, a rarer moneyer for the series, seldom coming up for sale. Near extremely fine for issue, cabinet toning.
Ex Baldwin’s Basement, with a supporting ticket in the hand of the founder.