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Anglo-Saxon Hoard
Tibor
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Just saw this in the current issue of E-Sylum v18#07 2-15-15.
I would provide a link but I am tech. challenged. Really well preserved!!
I would provide a link but I am tech. challenged. Really well preserved!!
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This takes you to the article directly: article
Thanks for bringing this up again... It's exciting to read about this, even if this is old news. When I first read about this, I thought OMG what will happen to the market for high-grade Ae2 and Cnut pennies? Unless a penny has eye-popping eye appeal (= state of preservation + superbness of strike + richness of toning), I would refrain from paying crazy money for what will certainly make certain coins even more common than they already are.
Even before this was announced, it is possible to buy a Cnut S-1157 penny graded British "Superb EF" or MS65 by NGC/PCGS for well under $2K. Just takes a little of patience. Or, get a nice "Choice EF"/MS64 for just over $1K.
EVP
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there will be dozens of high grade pieces to eventually choose from.
I'd be interested know which mint/moneyers were found in this hoard.
I get a text email every week and then have to wait for that web page until it appears in the archive section.
Here's a Youtube video of the Lenborough Hoard as it was discovered.
"The silver coins, which were wrapped in a sheet of lead to protect them, turned out to be Anglo-Saxon pennies.
They are about 1,000 years old, and were made in the reigs of two kings – Aethelred the Unready, and Cnut (sometimes called Canute) the Great."
The whole The Bucks Herald article
That's a lot of pennies!
EVP
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I think there was found a single Aethelred II "Angus Dei" penny, the rarest coin in the hoard, with twenty-something of this type known.