★ Ex Wayne, Lockett, and Vatican Hoard ★

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (23mm, 1.46 g, 11h). Bust Diademed (BD) type (BMC iii). Mint in East Anglia; Otsri(?), moneyer. + EΛDVVEΛRD REX, diademed bust left / OT(SO monogram?)RI/FECITW (T inverted) in two lines; three crosses pattée between, trefoils above and below. Vatican Hoard 445 ( this coin, illustrated pl. VI); SCBI –; BMC –; North 651; SCBC 1084. Lightly toned. Near EF. Exremely rare and most interesting with reverse legend in Latin reading ‘Otsri made me’.

From the G.W. Trow Collection. Ex Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection (Triton XIX, 5 January 2016), lot 916, purchased from Mark Rasmussen, 19 December 2006. Ex Bruun-Rasmussen 764 (11 December 2006), lot 5438; R. C. Lockett Collection (Part III, Glendining, 4 November 1958) lot 2712; “Rome Hoard” (Part II, Glendining, 13 November 1930), lot 50; 1928 Vatican Hoard.