Rare, Edward the Elder, Anglo-Saxon Church Tower or Reliquary  type

As the authors of Coinage in Tenth Century England suggest the exceptional reverse types were struck in English Mercia, under the authority of Edward's sister Æthelflæd, "Lady of the Mercians", their elaborate and distinctive designs purposely distinguishing them from the generic two line types of her brother and overlord in Wessex. Likely mints are Chester and Shrewsbury. The design has been interpreted as either a building, in the form of a church tower or the gateway to a burh or as a reliquary box containing the remains of an otherwise unknown saint. CTCE record only thirty examples of this type, ten by this moneyer.