Archbishops of Canterbury Ceolnoth Silver Penny 833-870AD ex. Stack Collection

Archbishops of Canterbury Ceolnoth Silver Penny 833-870AD ex. Stack Collection

20x21mm, 1.17g

Archbishops of Canterbury, Ceolnoth (833-70), group III, inscribed cross type, c.855-56, Penny, 1.15g., Canterbury, Hebeca, +CEOLNOÐ/ARCHIEP, tonsured facing bust, rev. +HEBE:./ECA MO/N/E/T/A on and around open- cross (Naismith C154. O – this coin; N.245; S.894), slight edge loss above head, very minor edge crack, even light tone, nearly extremely fine, rare.
SNC April 2000, 1448, previously SNC November 1999, 4433 L.R. Stack, Sotheby 22-23 April 1999, 264 Ex Knobloch, 972

With Stack & Spink tickets

A wonderful coin of good style (much better than the usual, cruder portraits) and an exemplary pedigree linking this piece with some of the finest collections of Anglo Saxon coins ever to be formed.