Eadgar (959 – 978 AD) Two Line Type Penny; NEV, York, Manai. 1.21g. (N. 741, S. 1129). REF: 5T6ERO.
Obverse: Central cross-pattée, inscription around +EADG·A·R REX, half-moon mark after X. Reverse: Unusual linked trefoil of pellets above and below, central line of three cross-pattée dividing inscription WAN· / ·AI MO.
A good example. Almost very fine.
Provenance:
Tetney Hoard (386), Lincolnshire, May 1945; A. H. Baldwin circa 1946.
Baldwin October 2001 (with ticket written by A. H. F. Baldwin).
Part of the Tetney hoard, see John Walker, ‘A Hoard of Anglo Saxon Coins from Tetney Lincolnshire’, Numismatic Chronicle, Sixth Series, Vol 5, pp. 81-95. This coin: no. 386, 18.5 grains.
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