H4004 - The Kingdom of Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), Silver Halfpenny, 0.70g., Viking Danelaw Imitation, after  his Third Coinage (c.880-899), Two Line type,  Guthrum/Canterbury die, moneyer Brunheard, +AELRFD RE+ DORO, within  a circle around cross pattée, rev., BNRVAD MO, in two lines separated by a pellet, a pellet above and below (N.638; S.1069), extremely rare, toned, practically as struck, superb! $6995 SOLD

 

Provenance:

Ex L. La Riviere Collection, Spink Auction, 9 October 2002, lot 981.

Lawrence R. Stack, Sotheby, 22 April 1999, lot 435.
Spink Numismatic Circular, December 1987, item 7076.

GF7 - The Kingdom of Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), Silver Penny, 1.14g., First Coinage, Lunette  / Portrait type,  Canterbury mint, Ethelmund moneyer, BMC type if, (c.871 - 875), +AELBRED REX, diademed bust right, rev., legend in three lines in and between two unbroken lunettes, NDMO ETELMV NETA, (N.625; S.1057; NC 1900, p.264/4 this coin; Lyons & Mackay #AfL1.37 this coin), full round coin, problem free, old hoard toning on good metal, good very fine, rare with a great provenance. $6250 SOLD

 

Provenance:

William C. Boyd (1840-1906) Collection, Baldwin's Auctions (42), 26 September 2005, lot #782 (ticket included, reused by Boyd).

Ex Lord Airlie Collection, Sotheby's, 30 June 1897, lot 5, purchased by Boyd himself.

 

Published:

‘The Lunettes coinage of Alfred the Great’, A. W. Lyons and W. A. MacKay, 78 (2008), p.89, #AfL1.37 this coin.

'Miscellanea', W. A.  Boyd, Numismatic Chronicle, 1900, p.264, #4 this coin, (see below).