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1. EXTREMELY RARE Aethelstan 'Two Line' Penny. Silver, 1.37 grams; 21.81 mm. Main issue, North Eastern with large lettering. Obverse: Small cross in centre, within inner circle, +AEDELSTAN REX around small cross pattee in centre. Reverse: Moneyer's name ain two lines, with three cross pattee in centre, two trefoils of pellets above and below VVEALD + + + HEL MO, moneyer Wealdhelm. Early Medieval Corpus registration number at the Fitzwilliam Museum: EMC 2007.TBA., similar to EMC 1994.0194. S 1089; N 668; BMC i, [H] HT 1. Almost zero wear on this smart example which is much better in the hand than scanned. Slight bend with a fine crack but solid, otherwise Extremely Fine.

Only one King Aethelstan coin of this moneyer recorded with the Medieval Coin Corpus (EMC) at the Fitzwilliam Museum and only two coins of this moneyer in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles.

A leading Museum expert writes: "MASB/PR: 'Wulfheard struck mint-signed coins of Athelstan's Bust Crowned type (Blunt, 'Athelstan', pp. 65-6), and his Horizontal coins without mint signatures, of Athelstan and Edward the Elder, are struck with Winchester style dies (CTCE p. 29, 70-1). He was probably a Winchester moneyer from the beginning of Edward the Elder's reign."

2. SMART EXTREMELY RARE Aethelstan 'Crowned Bust' Portrait Penny. Silver, 1.49 grams; 22.53 mm. Type CC/BC. Southern, East Anglia and Northumbria. Obverse: Large bust of the King facing right to edge of coin, +[E]DELSTAN REX around small cross pattee in centre. Reverse: Moneyer's name and mint around small cross in centre, GRIMWALD MO LOND CI, moneyer Grimwald at London. Early Medieval Corpus registration number at the Fitzwilliam Museum: EMC 2007.TBA. S 1095; N 675; BMC viii, ix. Almost zero wear on this smart example which is much better in the hand than scanned. Edge nibble, otherwise Good Very/Extremely Fine.

No similar coins recorded with the Medieval Coin Corpus (EMC) at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and Believed to be only one other coin known of this moneyer, which is in the Berlin State Museum and our example is a far superior strike.

A leading Museum expert writes: "The moneyer is Grimwald. There is only one coin from the same moneyer on the EMC/SCBI database, in the Berlin State Museum. It was originally published in B. Kluge, State Museum, Berlin. Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Hiberno-Norse Coins, Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 36 (1987), coin no 171"

3. Small cross, +EDELSTAN REX. R. Moneyer's name in two lines, three crosses in centre. GOTA MONETA, moneyer Gota. S 1089. Hair line crack. Very Fine.