H4404 - The Kingdom of Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), Silver Penny, 1.07g., First Coinage, Lunette  / Portrait type,  Mercian mint, Sigeric moneyer, (c.871 - 875), dies A/a, +AELBRED REX, diademed bust right, rev., in three lines in and between two lunettes consisting of a crook at each end, MON SIGERIC ETA(trefoil), (N.628; S.1057; Lyons & Mackay #AfL2.46 this coin), good very fine, dark tone, rare. $5995 SOLD

Provenance:

Spink Auction, September 26, 2006, lot 10.

Spink Numismatic Circular, August 2005, HS2146.

Ex Gainford Hoard (1864), Co. Durham, England (in the opinion of Lyons and Mackay, BNJ 78, 2010, p. 101).