345, Lot: 683. Estimate $300. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (20mm, 1.60 g, 12h). Expanding cross type (BMC v, Hild. E), heavy issue. Lincoln (Lincolne) mint; Othgrim, moneyer. Struck circa 1052-1053. Diademed and draped bust left; trefoil-tipped scepter to left / Voided short cross, with expanding limbs and circle around pellet-in-circle in center. Freeman 235; SCBI 27 (Lincolnshire), 699 (same dies); Mossop pl. LXXIV, 28 (dies A/a); BMC 703 var. (legends); North 823; SCBC 1177. VF, toned, areas of weak strike.

From the Michael Joffre Collection.