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English: A silver penny of Alfred the Great or a Viking forgery of one from the Saxon coins decorating the margin of Moll's map of Cambridgeshire, sold separately and as Map 23 in his Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales..., copied from Figure 12 of Tabula II Nummi Saxonici on Page 139 of Obadiah Walker's "Notes on the Saxon Coins" appended to the English translation of William Camden's Britannica.

Notes:
Obverse: ÆLFRED REX [Aelfred Rex, King Alfred]
Reverse: CVDBERHT [intending CVÐBERHT, Cuthberht or Cuthbert]
Walker's note states "12, 13. From the twelfth to the nineteenth, are of the great Alfred. The reverse of all, or most of them, seem to be noblemen and governors. The reverse of the twelfth, seems to be in honour of St. Cuthbert, one of the first, greatest, and most famous of our English saints. His life is written both in prose and verse by venerable Bede, who was born some time before Cuthbert died, so that his story was then fresh in memory. When King Alfred was in his lowest estate, absconding in Athelney, St. Cuthbert appeared to him, and to his wife's mother, declaring to them, that almighty God was reconciled to him, and pardoned his offences (the chiefest whereof were the neglect of his duty, and too much addiction to hunting in his youth, as St. Neot warned him) and would suddenly give him a signal victory over his enemies, (which happened at Edington in Wiltshire,) and would restore him to his kingdom. The King in gratitude gave to the service of God, in St. Cuthbert's church, the province called now the bishopric of Durham, and put his name upon his coin: as he did likewise that of uulfred, count or chief governor of Hampshire, upon the thirteenth." In fact, this Cuthbert was just a West Mercian moneyer who worked under Alfred and subsequent kings in London and elsewhere (1). His coins were among those regularly forged by Viking moneyers imitating the simple form of Alfred's issues (2).

London: Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux-Court in the Strand; Tho. Bowles, Print and Map-Seller near the Chapter-House in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Bowles Print and Map-Seller over-against Stocks-Market. 1724.