Edward the Elder Penny, AU50, Portrait type, East Anglia mint, Leofhelm
Edward the Elder (899-924),silver Penny, portrait type, Moneyer Leofhelm, East Anglia style, draped diademed bust left, Latin legend with inner linear and outer beaded circles surrounding, legend commences upper right, +EADVVEARD REX,rev.three cross pattées across centre, cross pattée at top with three pellet triangle either side and one further one at bottom of centre, Moneyer name in two lines, LEOFH / ELM MO, contraction mark above MO, weight 1.56g (CTCE 31; SCBI Oxford 9:307; BMC type iii; N.651; S.1084).Toned with some evidence of die clash with ghosting of lettering in obverse field, some weakness at one part of rim, otherwise with a well defined portrait, has been graded and slabbed by PCGS as AU50 and very rare.
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Edward the Elder (899-924),silver Penny, portrait type, Moneyer Leofhelm, East Anglia style, draped diademed bust left, Latin legend with inner linear and outer beaded circles surrounding, legend commences upper right, +EADVVEARD REX,rev.three cross pattées across centre, cross pattée at top with three pellet triangle either side and one further one at bottom of centre, Moneyer name in two lines, LEOFH / ELM MO, contraction mark above MO, weight 1.56g (CTCE 31; SCBI Oxford 9:307; BMC type iii; N.651; S.1084).Toned with some evidence of die clash with ghosting of lettering in obverse field, some weakness at one part of rim, otherwise with a well defined portrait, has been graded and slabbed by PCGS as AU50 and very rare.
