REGNALD Aethelstan penny, Viking ages of UK . aedlstan

Description

English Hammered Silver
(x) Kings of All England, Aethelstan (924/5-939), Penny, 1.43g, 1h, York, Regnald, + aedlstan rexx, around all within a solid inner circle, rev. tower above a straight horizontal line dividing the fields, eb - or / ac - ac in two lines at sides, regnald / mon in two lines below, trefoils of pellets either side of mon and small cross below (BSL pl. 7, 24 this coin; cf. Blunt and Stewart, Numismatic Chronicle 1983, pp. 146-163, and pl. 23 no.B7 ; N.684; S.1101) Variant, , extremely fine, attractively toned, very rare.