English Hammered Coins from Various Properties
This and the following seven Pennies of Alfred the Great (along with the Danish Two Line type, and the coins of the Cunnetti and St Edmund series listed below) all come from a private English collection formed between the 1960s and the 1980s.
Kings of Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-99), Penny, Phase III, Two Line type, Canterbury dies, Burgnoth, elfred re+ around small cross pattée, rev. bvrlnod mo in two lines divided by pellet, additional pellet above and below, lozenge shape o, 1.40g/6h (BMC –; N 635; S 1066). Good very fine, golden-grey toning; the moneyer rare in this type £1,500-£1,800