Obverse:

AEĐELRED REX. Diademed bust r. dividing legend with circle around.

Reverse:

ĐMO BVRGNO NETA in three lines, pellets stops, unbroken lunettes above and below.

Very minor edge chip otherwise very fine or better and toned. Previously slabbed and graded NGC - About Uncirculated 55. Only 3 coins of this moneyer known.

Published in SCBI 30 - American Collections No. 298 (this coin) (EMC 1030.0298) and listed in Lyons & Mackay, 2007 'The Coinage of Æthelred I (865-871)' British Numismatic Journal Vol. 77, Page 82 (illustration) and page 105 (listing) - Ae2.29

Ex CNG Auction, Triton VII, 12 Jan 2004 - Lot 1246

Ex John Hopkins University, Bank Leu and Numismatic Fine Arts Auction, 16-18 Oct 1994 - Lot 745

Ex J. W. Garrett Collection

Ex W. Raymond, 11 Oct 1922

Suggested by Lyons & Mackay as "almost certainly" Ex R. M. Murchison Collection, Sotheby's Auction, May 1866 - Lot 169

The John W. Garrett collection was originally established in 1860 by his farther T. Harrison Garrett and was added to by John until his death in 1942. It then went to the Johns Hopkins University, where it remained until the late 1970s. It was at this time that the university determined that the collection, which was in a vault and not on display or particularly available for scholarship, should be sold and the proceeds directed to other areas of the university. The sale of this collection realised a total of $25 million, a record at the time for the most valuable collection ever sold.