Kings of England Aethelstan 924-939AD Silver Penny North Eastern Series Tower type, Moneyer Frotier

Kings of England Aethelstan 924-939AD Silver Penny North Eastern Series Tower type, Moneyer Frotier.

S1100, 21mm, 1.29g

Holed and neatly plugged, an extremely rare architectural type, seldom available to commerce.

Provenance – The Kent Collection. This coin comes with a hand written collector’s ticket and was previously sold by Rasmussen’s in 2006.

The eldest son of Edward the Elder, Aethelstan succeeded in the re-conquest of Danish controlled territory with the capture of York in 927AD. He introduced the coinage law at Grately which stated that there should be one coinage throughout the kings land and no minting except in a port; it also outlined the quota of moneyers for each borough.