1077042 | GREAT BRITAIN. England. Aethelred II. (978-1016) Wulfnoth AR Penny. PCGS MS61. Winchester. +EDAERAED REX ANGL. Armored bust left in radiate helmet / + PVL FNΘ Ð M'Θ PINT. Voided long cross with three pellets in the angles. SCBC-1152, North 775; Winchester Mint 658a, this coin; SCBI Mack 1005, this coin; BEH 4336 variant.

Ex Duke of Argyll Collection; R.P. Mack Collection, Spink Auction 64, 23 June 1988, lot 156; A.J. Arnot Collection, BDW Auction 11, 21 March 1995, lot 169; A Collection of Pennies of Æthelred II, the Property of a Gentleman, Spink Auction 212, 28-9 March 2012, lot 413.


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Niall Dairmid Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll (1872-1949) was a Scottish peer and historian who was often referred to as "Scotland's most picturesque Duke." He hated telephones and motor cars and indulged in eccentric behaviors, which included greeting tourists with recitals from Italian operas. He is said to have spent his final years in what was called "monastic seclusion" and fearing that the eccentricity from his maternal relationship could be inherited, he never married and died childless in 1949.

The Duke of Argyll Collection was purchased en bloc by Spink in 1949 and it first appeared in the Spink Numismatic Circular in November of 1952. Most of the coins from the collection were acquired in the late 1930s and 1940s.