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Great Britain Late Anglo-Saxon coinage,

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:1,250.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD
Great Britain Late Anglo-Saxon coinage,
<B>Late Anglo-Saxon coinage, Aethelred II (AD 978-1016),</B></I> crux penny,<B> </B></I>S-1148, N-770: bare-headed bust facing left, with a scepter in the left field, AEDELRAED REX ANGLOX, cross ("Anglox" is a variant on "Anglor"); reverse: voided short cross with the letters C R U X in angles, PYNSTAN MO PIN, cross, standing for the moneyer Wynstan at Winchester Mint. A superb example, essentially Gem FDC, on a full flan of good metal and deeply struck, without chips or cracks and with a remarkable portrait, the inner circles crisp, the outer circles high and deeply struck, the color a beautiful and well-set medieval gray with golden iridescent highlights. So well preserved that even the 1000-year-old die-tooling marks remain intact. A great, late Anglo-Saxon coin!<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Coins & Currency (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)