Viking Danelaw issue of Alfred the Great Portrait Penny, Londonia monogram
Alfred the Great (871-899), silver Penny, portrait type, Southern Danelaw issue (c.880-910), London Monogram reverse, double diademed tall portrait facing right, wearing tunic made up of curved horizontal beaded lines, legend and outer beaded circle at rim surrounding, legend commences at lower left, ELFR ÆD REX, rev. the Londonia Monogram, cross pattée above, four cruciform pellets below, outer beaded circle surrounding, weight 1.42g (Mackay Danelaw A1 -1 - O1/R1, pl.4 - 58 this coin; reverse B.M.C. type VII; N.463; S.964). Toned, a touch off-centre, some discoloration from soil and surface stress marks around chin, cut on cheek, very fine, extremely rare, more so perhaps than Alfred's own moneyers issues.
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Alfred the Great (871-899), silver Penny, portrait type, Southern Danelaw issue (c.880-910), London Monogram reverse, double diademed tall portrait facing right, wearing tunic made up of curved horizontal beaded lines, legend and outer beaded circle at rim surrounding, legend commences at lower left, ELFR ÆD REX, rev. the Londonia Monogram, cross pattée above, four cruciform pellets below, outer beaded circle surrounding, weight 1.42g (Mackay Danelaw A1 -1 - O1/R1, pl.4 - 58 this coin; reverse B.M.C. type VII; N.463; S.964). Toned, a touch off-centre, some discoloration from soil and surface stress marks around chin, cut on cheek, very fine, extremely rare, more so perhaps than Alfred's own moneyers issues.
