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Four-line lunette type, Torhtmund - Kingdom of the West Saxons, ÆTHELRED I (865-871), penny, Four Line type, 865/66, var. i, Canterbury,Torhtmund, diademed bust right, tunic with central panel with double curving lines, as on Aethelwulf/Aethelberht inscribed cross types, D REX+EÐELRE, rev. A / TORHTM / VND MON /ETA , A at top between trefoils, central inscription divided by a line, crook above and below (N.624: S.1056; Lyons and MacKay 2007, Ae1.8, this coin), extremely rare. Courtesy of a private collection. Ex Spink auction 6th Dec 2017, lot 23, provenance: purchased from Seaby in the 1950's, V J E Ryan, Glendining, 22 January 1952, lot 710, £4, 5/-, G C Drabble, Glendining, 4-6 July 1939, lot 381, £2, 5/-, A M Brushfield, Glendining, 2 May 1929, lot 26 (part), £1, 18/-, Major P W P Carlyon-Britton, Sotheby, 11 November 1918, lot 1643 (part), £3, 3/-, E W Rashleigh, Sotheby, 21 June-1 July 1909, lot 214, "wt. 14.5 grs.", 15/-, J Rashleigh, Num. Chronicle, Vol. VIII, 1868, pp. 148, no. 2 (this coin), Menabilly House collection, commenced by Philip Rashleigh (d.1811). Found at Trewhiddle, near St. Austell, Cornwall, November 1774. |