St Edmund Memorial (c. 885 – 915 AD) Type Penny; Viking East Anglia, Bado. 1.29g. (N. 483, S. 961). REF: D1YHFU.
Obverse: Central letter A within wire circle, inscription around +SCEA’IDM. Reverse: Cross within wire circle, inscription around BAD MO.
A neat evenly toned coin, good metal, some flat spots. Almost very fine.
Provenance:
Seaby, September 1958 (sold with Seaby ticket and envelope).
A ‘late’ issue as demonstrated by the smaller module and blundered abbreviated legends, see C.E. Blunt, et al., ‘Coinage in Tenth-Century England’, p. 100.