Kent Kingdon. Grants: Exeter silver pennies

Kent Kingdon's Bequest for the Royal Albert Museum and Free Library

Purchase grants

Exeter silver pennies 991-1086

In April 2001 the Kent Kingdon Trust assisted the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in the purchase at auction in New York of ten rare silver pennies minted at Exeter between about 991 and 1086. Most of these had formerly been part of the R.P.V.Brettell collection, one of the finest collections of Devon coins ever assembled, which was sold at auction in 1970. The Royal Albert Memorial Museum holds one of the two British reference collections of the Saxon and Norman coinage of the Devon mints, the other being the British Museum, so it was fortunate that the Museum was able to take this opportunity to fill significant gaps in its collection. The coins are reproduced with kind permission of the Museum.

Lot 1776 Aethelred II. Crux type ca.991-997 Leofric moneyer. Seaby 1148.
Lot 1782 Aethelred II. Long cross type ca.997-1003 Wulfsige moneyer. Seaby 1151.
Lot 1784 Aethelred II. Long cross type ca.997-1003 Wynsige moneyer. Seaby 1151.
Lot 1789 Aethelred II. Last small cross type ca. 1009-1017 Isgod moneyer. Seaby 1154.
Lot 1790 Aethelred II. Last small cross type ca. 1009-1017 Wulfsige moneyer. Seaby 1154.
Lot 1791 Cnut. Quatrefoil type ca.1017-1023 Saewine moneyer. Seaby 1157.
Lot 1797 Cnut. Helmet type ca.1024-1030 Wulfstan moneyer. Seaby 1158.
Lot 1801 Edward the Confessor. PACX type 1042-1044 Leofwine moneyer. Seaby 1171.
Lot 1809 Edward the Confessor. Hammer type 1059-1062 Lifing moneyer. Seaby 1082.
Lot 1839 William I. PAXS type ca.1083-1086 Semier moneyer. Seaby 1257.

In addition Devon County Council was able to assist through its Millennium Fund, in the purchase of the following four coins, including a rare example from the Totnes mint.

Lot 1795 Cnut. Pointed helmet type ca.1024-30 Goda moneyer.
Lot 1837 William I. PAXS type ca.1083-1086 Semier moneyer.
Lot 1841 William I. PAXS type ca.1083-1086 Sewine moneyer.
Aethelread II. Second hand type ca.985-991 Hunewine of Totnes moneyer.

Last Updated: 16 October 2014