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GM23631

Kings of Kent, Baldred, Penny, Canterbury Mint, Waerheard, unique type

Regular price £6,750
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Baldred (823-825), King of Kent, silver Penny, Canterbury Mint, moneyer Waerheard, crosslet within linear circle, legend surrounding, +BEALDRED REX, rev. pellet at centre of five spoked device with serifed feet within linear circle, legend surrounding, +PERHEARD, weight 1.28g (cf. BMC 19; Naismith CSE -; N.-; cf. S.880). One small chip, toned, good very fine to almost extremely fine and the first example of this design recorded, currently unique.

His ancestry unknown, Baldred was likely a Kentish nobleman through the years of Mercian overlordship by Coenwulf after the death of Cuthred in circa 807. With the death of Coenwulf in 821 and his brother Ceolwulf in 823, Kent had an opportunity to resist Mercian rule and Baldred was duly elected King in 823. With the later rise of Ecgberht of Wessex and having killed Beornwulf of Mercia at the Battle of Ellandun in 825, Ecgberht either expelled or killed Baldred in 827 when Wessex takes control of the county.

The obverse legend translates as "Baldred King" and the reverse with moneyer name "Werheard"

Provenance:

Found Dorset 2020, EMC 2020.0349.

Ex Dix Noonan and Webb, Auction 185, 1st December 2020, lot 92.

Ex Collection of an English Doctor, part one, Sovereign Rarities, London, March 2022.

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