Silver, 0.77 grams; 21.11 mm. Circa A.D. 843 - 848 (Farther of Alfred the Great). +EDELYLF REX, early portrait right with drapery to edge of coin. R. Unknown with Cross Moline within inner circle, +DYYN mON[ET]A, Dunn at Rochester. N 599-601 with a N 606 reverse; BMC viii,xv,xvi/BMC xxii. Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University as: EMC 2005.0178. Nibbled edge and pierced for use as a pendant, otherwise good very fine. Found Lincs 2005. This coin has a fabulous portrait of King Aethelwulf.

Previously unknown. None recorded on the Early Medieval Corpus at the Fitzwilliam Museum (EMC) Cambridge University and the Sylloge of Coins (SCBI) in the British Museum.

A leading Museum expert writes: "The Aethelwulf (EMC 2005.0178) is a new combination of the Phase 2 portrait type of the Rochester mint (as North 599-601) with the Cross Moline reverse of North 606. The Rochester coins of this period are so rare that new combinations of types like this are always possible. You could argue that the piercing adds to the historical interest of the piece."