Eadgar (959 – 978 AD) Two Line Type Penny; NEV, York, Man. 1.27g. (N. 741, S. 1129). REF: HAY3EG.
Obverse: Central cross-pattée, inscription around +EADG•A•R REX‾∴ Reverse: Trefoil of pellets above and below, central line of three cross-pattée dividing inscription WAN / •AH NO.
A pleasant nicely toned coin. The crescent and trefoil privy mark on the obverse appears to be the only so-marked example from Tetney, though it should be pointed out an amazing array of privy marks are to be found on mid 10th C., two line type pennies. The reverse die matches coins held by the Royal Collection Copenhagen, and National Museum of Antiquities Scotland (amongst other examples), and both dies match EMC: 1009.0398 (SCBI: 9/398, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). Very fine.
Provenance:
Tetney Hoard (394), 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. 394, 19.2 grains. The hoard was discovered in May 1945 by ploughman Morris Walter Houlden. The coins were contained in a hard chalk receptacle which broke in two when hit by the plough, revealing 420 coins, and two silver clips. The bulk of the coins were of Eadred (45), Eadwig (77) and Eadgar (292). The British Museum cleaned the corroded coins, retained several, and returned the remainder to the finder. Many were subsequently sold to the London dealer A. H. Baldwin.
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