Lot 482
Eadred (946-953), Silver Penny, portrait type, moneyer Levvince. Crowned and draped bust right extending to bottom of coin, legend with linear inner circle surrounding, toothed border around rim both sides, legend commences at left, + EADRED RE., rev. small cross pattée, legend with linear inner circle surrounding, LEUUINCE ONX.:, weight 1.40g (B.M.C. type V; N.713; S.1115). Very attractively toned, with an excellent portrait, almost extremely fine, the moneyer name interesting as the "VV" is depicted on this coin unusually as "UU", very rare. Value $5,000 - UP
The seven year reign of Eadred does not usually give us any mint town readings. Therefore, it is interesting to note in the Lockett catalogue entry it was suggested that the ON X part of the legend may mean Exeter mint, though with modern thinking since it is more likely the X and three pellets following the N are space fillers. The Lockett cataloguer also thought the moneyer name to be LEMLINCE rather than Levvince. In the Witte catalogue of 1908 the cataloguer gives the moneyer name as LEMOINCE.
This coin is illustrated in the book "Coinage in Tenth Century England" by Messrs. Blunt Stewart and Lyon, plate 24 number 250.
The obverse Latin legend translates as "Eadred King" and the reverse as "Levvince Moneyer.".
Ex Julius Witte, of Altrincham, Sotheby, 13th April 1908, lot 55. Ex Richard Cyril Lockett, English Collection part IV, Glendining, 26-27th April 1960, lot 3701, sold for £62. Ex Lucien La Riviere, Spink Coin Auction, 10th October 2002, lot 1003.
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