Edward The Elder Small Cross Penny VF Extremely Rare Moneyer

Edward the Elder (899-924), Small cross, two line Silver Penny.

Obv: +EADVVEARD REX within a circle around cross pattée with 4 privy marks

Rev: PINEL MON  in two lines separated by a row of three cross pattée's, trefoil of pellets above and below legend.

 Moneyer: WINELE

A full round coin, slightly wavy flan struck on  good silver, dark toning, Good VF

Weight 1.6 grams Spink 1087.

Four interesting Privy marks, lines running through inner circle on the obverse.

Nice example and Extremely Rare. Found  Found near Sudbury, Suffolk  2007 and bought directly from the finder.

The only one of this type recorded on Early Medieval Corpus at the Fitzwilliam Museum (EMC) Cambridge University

or in the Sylloge of Coins (SCBI) of the British Isles, in the British Museum.

The record reads as follows:

EMC number 2007.0318 (Ref: Reported)
State: Anglo-Saxon England (871-1066), Ruler: Edward the Elder (899-924)
Type: N 649 (Two-Line) (899-924)
Mint uncertain, moneyer: Winele (PINEL).
Weight: 1.6g.
Findspot: Sudbury, near, Suffolk, England (TL 8741)
Obv. +EADVVEARD REX
Rev. +PINEL / MON

Priced at £700 inclusive of shipping and handling.