拍品描述： 876你那韦塞克斯阿尔弗雷德大帝便士 极美

Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), Penny, Cross and Lozenge type, c. 876-80, Winchester, Heahstan, 1.38g, 5h, +腖FRED REX SA, draped and diademed bust right, commencing above head, rev. HEA | STA | NMO | NETA, saltire within central lozenge, arms of cross extending from bar at each lozenge point, pellet in the field in each angle (EMC 2016.0034 this coin; SCBI 9, 247 same dies [= Blackburn and Keynes, 46]; N.629; Spink 1058), darker tone to peripheries framing sharply struck up devices, an outstanding coin with a delightful artistic flair, much as struck and of the highest rarity thus Provenance CNG Triton XX, 11 January 2017, lot 1526 ~ Reported as found at Alfriston, East Sussex, September 2015 ~