311, Lot: 1083. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (18mm, 1.02 g, 9h). Facing Bust/Small Cross type (BMC xiii, Hild. Ac). Walingeford (Wallingford) mint; Beorhtmær, moneyer. Struck 1062-1065. EΛDPΛRD REX A, crowned facing bust / + BRIHTMÆR ON PAL, short cross pattée. Freeman 39; SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 1053 (same dies); Hild. –; BMC 1292 var. (PA); North 830; SCBC 1183. VF, darkly toned.
Lot includes an old Seaby envelope and a collector ticket noting the coin was purchased from W.S. Lincoln & Son, 3 December 1918.