Saxon Coins

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Early Anglo-Saxon Silver Sceats

 

WSax-5320:  Anglo Saxon - Continental Silver Sceat.  AD 695 – 740.  Porcupine (now thought to be a diademed bust) type. Extra image added here.  £89

 

WSax-5847:  Anglo Saxon - Continental Silver Sceat.  AD 695 – 740.  Porcupine (now thought to be a diademed bust) type, series E, variety E.  Extra image added here.  £109

 

 

 

Kings of Northumbria Saxon Coins

 

Aethelred

 

WSax-5319:  Anglo Saxon – Aethelred II, moneyer Alghere.  Kings of Northumbria issue.  Extra image added here.  £75

 

WSax-5525:  Anglo Saxon – Aethelred II, Moneyer Eanred.  Retrograde.  Kings of Northumbria issue.  Extra image added here.  High grade.  £95

 

WSax-5841:  Anglo Saxon – Aethelred II, moneyer BRODER.  Kings of Northumbria issue.  Extra image added here.  £75

 

WSax-5842:  Anglo Saxon – Aethelred II, moneyer WHITRED.  Kings of Northumbria issue.  Extra image added here.  £75

 

WSax-5843:  Anglo Saxon – Aethelred II, moneyer EANRED.  Kings of Northumbria issue.  Extra image added here.  £75

 

WSax-5844:  Anglo Saxon – Aethelred II, moneyer FORDRED.  Kings of Northumbria issue.  Extra image added here.  £75

 

 

Eanred

 

WSax-3524:  Eanred Silver Saxon Coin, AD 810-41.  Kings’ of Northumbria issue.  Moneyer EADWVLF.  Extra image added here.  Good grade and much rarer in silver.  £125

 

 

 

 

Archbishops’ of York Saxon Coins

 

WSax-4997:  Very nice grade Wigmund Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of York Coin.  AD 837 – 849.  Extra image added here.  Moneyer COENRED.  £78

 

WSax-5557:  Better grade Wigmund Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of York Coin.  AD 837 – 849.  Extra image added here.  Moneyer COENRED.  £95

 

 

 

Middle Saxon "Hammered Silver" Issues

 

King Offa (757 – 796):  Read about King Offa

 

WSax-6004:  Offa Middle Saxon Mercia Hammered Silver Penny.  King’s name variety, 765-92 AD.  Kings of Mercia era.  OFFA REX with two lunettes with crosses in between.  London and Canterbury mint; moneyer ETHENOTH.  Good silver, good edges and good detail thus rare.  A seldom seen variety.  North 286 – listed Extremely Rare, Spink 904.  An iconic ruler, evocative of that period in our history.  Sold with a couple of old tickets.  £1,995

 

WSax-6339:  Offa Middle Saxon Hammered Silver *PORTRAIT* Penny.  London or Canterbury type, North 301, S.905.  Floriate cross with lozenge reverse.  17mm, 1.07 grams, 16.6 grains.  First image in natural light.  Extra image with flash - chip at 10 o'clock (obv), the effect at 7 o'clock (rev) is just a lighting effect.  A sought after type coin.  £3,295

 

WSax-6415:  Offa Middle Saxon Mercia Hammered Silver Penny.  King’s name variety, 792-96 AD.  Kings of Mercia era.  OFFA REX.  London, Canterbury and East Anglia mint; moneyer ETHENOTH.  Good silver, good edges and good detail thus rare.  A seldom seen variety.  North 321 – listed Extremely Rare, Spink 908.  An iconic ruler, evocative of that period in our history.  £1,995

 

 

 

Wulfred (Archbishop of Canterbury) (805 – 832):

 

WSax-6079:  Wulfred Middle Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  Portrait penny, Canterbury (Archbishops of Canterbury) with SAEBERHT as the moneyer.  Group III, WVLFRED ARCHIEPI and AEBERHT MONETA.  North 240/1, Spink 889.  BMC 26, circa 815-23.  Excellent grade with just a small ragged edge at 12 o’clock.  Rare.  £1,875

 

 

 

Coenwulf (King of Mercia) (796 – 821):

 

WSax-6442:  Coenwulf Middle Saxon Kings of Mercia Hammered Silver Penny.  Portrait penny, Canterbury with DVDA as the moneyer.  Group II, Spink 915.  BMC 26, circa 815-23.  Excellent grade with small edge chips at 7 o’clock.  Ex Mack, Lockett and Spink.  See tickets here.  In 1975 this coin was sold as part of the Mack collection by Glendinnings (see here).  The estimate was £900 - £1,000 (£5,032.46 in today’s money – accurate as of Sept 2017).  Rare and with excellent pedigree.  £2,495

 

 

 

Edward the Elder (Kings of Wessex) (899 – 924):

 

WSax-6443:  Edward the Elder Middle Saxon Kings of Wessex Hammered Silver Penny.  Moneyer EADMVND, last Small Cross type, Spink 1087.  Excellent grade - the small peck marks indicate a Viking influence.  Rare.  £695

 

 

 

Eadmund (936-946):

 

WSax-5772:  Eadmund Middle Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  936-46 AD.  Kings of all England era.  Moneyer Aelfwald, B.M.C. i.  Extra image added here.  Full flan, toned, problem-free.  A lovely example.  £890

 

 

 

Late Saxon "Hammered Silver" Issues

 

Aethelred II (978-1016): Read about Aethelred II

 

WSax-5995:  Aethelred II Hammered Silver Saxon Penny – Rare Mint.  B.M.C. i.  Late Saxon, 1009 - 1017 AD.  Last short cross type.  Exeter mint town.  Spink 1154.  Moneyer WULFSIGE.  Rare mint.  £385

 

WSax-6425:  Aethelred II Hammered Silver Saxon Penny – Rarer Mint.  B.M.C. iiia.  Late Saxon, 991 - 997AD.  Crux type.  Totnes mint town.  Moneyer AELFSTAN.  Spink 1148.  Ex Bonham’s auction 2006.  Rarer mint.  £425

 

WSax-5738:  Aethelred II Hammered Silver Saxon Penny.  B.M.C. iva.  Late Saxon, 997 - 1003 AD.  Long cross type.  Thetford (East Anglia) mint town.  Extra image added here.  Spink 1151.  Moneyer GRIM.  Superb grade, better mint.  £435

 

WSax-6098:  Aethelred II Hammered Silver Saxon Penny.  B.M.C. iva.  Late Saxon, 997 - 1003 AD.  Long cross type.  Bath mint town.  Moneyer EDSTAN.  Superb grade and a very rare mint.  Spink 1151.  There is only one recorded Bath penny for Aethelred II on the EMC Database.  Sold with a very old ticket (see here) which looks to be pre WW2 in date.  A very nice grade coin from a rare mint and with provenance.  £765

 

WSax-6114:  Aethelred II Hammered Silver Saxon Penny.  B.M.C. iva.  Late Saxon, 997 - 1003 AD.  Long cross type.  Rochester mint town.  Moneyer EADWERD.  Spink 1151.  Quite a rare and sought after Southern mint.  £395

 

WSax-6194:  Aethelred II Hammered Silver Saxon Penny.  B.M.C. viii var.  Late Saxon, 1003-09 AD.  Helmet type.  London mint town.  Moneyer PVLGAR.  Extra annulets in the first and third reverse quarters – an extremely rare ECCLIASTICAL issue.  Unusual varieties with Ecclesiastical devices are nearly always exclusively from the East Anglian mints.  This is London and the first I’ve ever seen.  Hild type E, Spink 1152 var, North 775 var.  No examples known for B.M.C or in Scandinavia.  Not on the E.M.C. database.  Sold with three tickets (an old one shown here, a Mike Vosper ticket and a Tim Owen ticket).  A very rare coin.  £895

 

 

 

Cnut (1016-1035): Read about Cnut.

 

WSax-4053:  Cnut Late Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  Pointed helmet type (1024-30), London mint.  Significant provenance on this coin, being from the Duke of Argyll’s collection.  Extra image added here.  Beautifully toned.  Image of the collection holder here.  An important coin.  £425

 

WSax-6448:  Cnut Late Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  Pointed helmet type (1024-30), B.M.C. xiv.  Blundered and retrograde images – a contemporary imitation of possibly Continental origins.  We’re all aware of the later Norman practice of test cutting Henry 1st pennies, indicating that contemporary counterfeits were a serious issue at the time, but how many of us have actually seen Saxon and Norman contemporary counterfeits?  This coin would fool anyone in Saxon / Norman times (and now), assuming they were illiterate, which many people were.  A rare and interesting coin requiring much research.  Ex Spink.  £385

 

WSax-4485:  Cnut Late Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  B.M.C. xvi - Short cross type (1029-35/6), “+MANNA-ON-NORD”.  Extra image added here.  Spink 1159.  Rarer Norwich mint.  £349

 

WSax-6011:  Cnut Late Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  B.M.C. xvi - Short cross type (1029-35/6), “+AEGELPINE ON EOF”.  Spink 1159.  York mint.  £349

 

WSax-6047:  Cnut Late Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  B.M.C. xvi - Short cross type (1029-35/6), “+OSLAC ON NICOL”.  Spink 1159.  Lincoln mint.  £349

 

WSax-6050:  Cnut Late Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  B.M.C. xvi - Short cross type (1029-35/6), “+GODMAN ON EORK”.  Spink 1159.  York mint.  £349

 

WSax-6088:  Cnut Late Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  B.M.C. xvi - Short cross type (1029-35/6), “+AEGELRIC O SCEFT”.  Spink 1159.  Shaftsbury mint.  No examples of Shaftsbury Cnut pennies in the Mack (1975) collection and only a single example (+ ÆLRIC ON SCEFTE) on the EMC database.  A very rare mint coin.  £795

 

WSax-6334:  Cnut Late Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  B.M.C. xvi - Short cross type (1029-35/6), “+BLACAMAN O SNO”.  Spink 1159.  Nottingham mint.  An extremely rare mint coin.  Ex Cnut hoard of 1993, ex Sharp collection, ex Baldwins, ex Spink, ex Lord Stewartby collection.  Sold with three tickets (two shown here).  Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York from 1691 was an enthusiastic collector and student of coins and medals; his interest seems to have begun around 1687 when, as Rector of St Giles in the Fields, he ‘found it a good divertisement in the evening’. In contrast to nearly all his numismatic forbears and contemporaries who were interested in Ancient Greece and Rome, Sharp selected the coinages of the British Isles and, to a lesser extent, the Colonies and Continental Europe, as his chosen fields. He wrote his ‘Observations on the Coinage of England with a letter to Mr [Ralph] Thoresby’ in 1698-99, which was to circulate amongst numismatists in manuscript form for nearly a century before being finally printed in 1785.  Subsequent owners of the Sharp collection evidently added to the collection. The historical sequence of ownership of the collection runs as follows: 

(i) Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York;

(ii) John Sharp (1674-1726), eldest son of the Archbishop, of Grafton Park, Northamptonshire;

(iii) Dr Thomas Sharp (1693-1758), his brother, who was Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham;

(iv) His son Dr John Sharp (1723-1792), Vicar of Hartburn, Perpetual Curate of Bamburgh, who succeeded his father as Archdeacon of Northumberland and who oversaw extensive restoration of the largely-ruined Bamburgh Castle;

(v) His daughter Anne Jemima Sharp (1762-1816), who bequeathed it in her will to her uncle Granville Sharp (1735-1813), the prominent Anti-Slavery campaigner. In the event Granville died before his niece, so that on her death in 1819 it passed to her first cousin, another great-granddaughter of the Archbishop:

(vi) Catherine Sharp (1770-1843) of Clare Hall, near Barnet, whose husband Rev. Andrew Boult took the name Sharp on marriage;

(vii) Her nephew Thomas Barwick Lloyd-Baker (1807-86), the social reformer and ornithologist who was also a direct descendant of the Archbishop through his maternal grandfather William Sharp (1729-1810), George III’s surgeon; thence by descent.

During the 1960s and 1970s material from the celebrated Archbishop Sharp Collection was sold through the agency of dealers A.H. Baldwin & Sons, and Owen Parsons of Gloucester. There were auctions of Continental Coins (Sotheby & Co., 14 March 1966) and the particularly important English Coins and Medals Charles I – Anne (and Colonial Coins) held by Glendining & Co., 5 October 1977. The cataloguer of the latter sale drew attention to the distinctive toning found on many of the Archbishop Sharp silver coins, a feature which applies equally to the piece offered here. Some of these have been studied and occasionally referenced in the past.  This coin £1,895

 

 

 

Harold “Godwinesson” I (1035-1040): Read about Harold I

 

WSax-5827:  Harold 1st Hammered Silver Saxon Penny.  Late Saxon – Jewel Cross type (1036-35).  B.M.C. i.  Extra image added here.  THORGRIM.ON.EBOR – York mint.  We are currently witnessing standard mint Harold 1st pennies, from a small hoard of 20+, circulating on dealers’ tables at £2,500!!  This coin sold with several tickets.  £725

 

WSax-6591:  Harold 1st Hammered Silver Saxon Penny.  Late Saxon – Jewel Cross type (1036-35).  B.M.C. v, 1038-40.  PVLFPINE O GRA – Cambridge mint.  Sold with old tickets (see here).  Wavy flan but beautifully toned and otherwise problem-free.  There were no Harold 1st Cambridge coins of any type in the famous Elmore Jones collection (such an extensive accumulation that it makes an excellent yardstick) and there are no examples of this mint and moneyer combination on the EMC / SCBI databases – indeed, there are only two examples of Harold 1st / Cambridge, regardless of moneyer.  £945

 

 

 

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066): Read about Edward The Confessor.

 

WSax-5016:  Edward The Confessor Hammered Silver Saxon Penny.  Late Saxon – pointed helmet type (1053-56).  B.M.C. vii.  Extra image added here.  PVLFPINE.ON.STANF (Stamford).  Rare moneyer for mint.  Superb strike – stunning portrait.  £495 RESERVED (C.H.6-8-18)

 

WSax-5502:  Edward The Confessor Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  Late Saxon – pyramids type (1065-66).  B.M.C. xv.  Stafford (GODSPINE).  Extra image added here.  Very rare mint town.  £985

 

WSax-6378:  Edward The Confessor Saxon Hammered Silver Penny.  Late Saxon – small flan type (1065-66).  B.M.C. ii.  +ALDGAR ON AIN.  Moneyer ALDGAR with the mint signature AIN.  The IN is unambiguous; the A could possibly be a different letter.  London is the only mint town recorded as having Aldgar as a moneyer but that looks unlikely from AIN.  Surface stress marks to the silver.  Not cracks.  Cheap.  £345

 

 

 

 

Harold II (1066 only):  Read about Harold II ("Last of the Saxons")

 

WSax-6520:  Harold II Hammered Silver Saxon Penny.  Very late Saxon – PAX and Sceptre type, 1066 only.  B.M.C. I.  Spink 1186.  GODRIC on THEOTI (East Anglia) mint.  Excellent legends with no cracks, chips, repairs or any other issues.  £3,275 RESERVED (H.S.1-7-18)