Extremely Rare Type for Gloucester

CNG 102, Lot: 1478. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (17mm, 1.11 g, 7h). Trefoil Quadrilateral type (BMC iii; Hild. C). Gloucester mint; Wulfweard, moneyer. Struck 1046-1048. Diademed and draped bust left; trefoil-tipped scepter before / + PVLFPERID ON GLE, quadrilateral, with pellet in center and trefoils at angles, over voided short cross. Freeman 143 = SCBI 54 (Stockholm), 728 = Hild. 197 (same dies); EMC –; North 817; SCBC 1174. Near EF. Extremely rare, possibly the only example of this type for Gloucester in private hands.

Ex Baldwin’s 13 (28 May 1997), lot 1569.