Eadwig - NW Mint / Aelfsige - Floral Type C Penny

955-959 AD. BMC type IV. Obv: small cross with EADPIGEREX legend. Rev: mitre-shaped floral design with rosette below dividing ÆLF - SIGE across fields for the moneyer Ælfsige at a north-western mint. S. 1125; N. 737; see EMC 1017-0158 for the only other example for this moneyer (fragment, probably same dies"). See Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference MEC 2019.0357 (this coin); see Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference NMS-5258A8 (ditto"). 0.94 grams. . Found Haddiscoe, Norfolk, UK, October 2019. Only one other example for this moneyer has been recorded, a fragment excavated at Warwick in 1967 (see EMC 1017.0158").
Condition Report: Very fine; small chip at edge. Extremely rare; second recorded specimen in over fifty years.