The Spang Collection of The Kings & Queens of England. Viking Danelaw, East Anglia, circa 890.

St Edmund Memorial Penny, AR 19 mm. 1.46 g., Alpha, trefoil above, +SCEAIDMYND REX around. Rev. OIIIIONEAIIAI around small cross. S.960.
Iridescent tone and good very fine

Privately purchased from the Wolfshead gallery.
An early minting, with upright ‘S’ and literate obverse legend. Minted in honor of the now sainted last Saxon king, by the Viking settlers who had sacrificed him to Odin.