Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1446. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (1.25 gm). Gloucester mint; Ælfsige, moneyer. Pointed helmet type, 1053-1056. +EADVE: ARD RECX, helmeted bust left, with cross sceptre / +ÆLESIIE ON GLEPEC, voided cross with lunate ends. SCBI 18, 874 (same dies); North 826; SCBC 1180. Good VF, old collection toning. Very rare. ($2500)

From the William J. Conte Collection; ex Norweb Collection, Spink 59 (17 June 1987), lot 1265; F. Elmore Jones Collection, Glendining's (12 May 1971), lot 316; from the Sedlescombe hoard.