H2153 - Aethelred II, the Unready
(978-1016), Silver
Penny, 2.18g., CRVX type (c.991-c.997), Southwark - Eadwig,
bare-headed bust left with sceptre, AEÐELRED REX ANGLORX, rev., short
cross voided CRVX in the angles, +EADPI M - O SVĐBY, (N.770; S.1148),
very fine, toned with a few Viking peck marks, with a stock ticket written
in the hand of A. H. Baldwin. WAS $525 NOW $425
SOLD
This mint signature was previously
attributed to the mint of Sudbury in Suffolk, as this ticket from the early
20th century inidicates.
