401, Lot: 683. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (20mm, 1.40 g, 3h). Pointed Helmet type (BMC vii, Hild. F). York mint; Thorr, moneyer. Struck 1053-1056. Helmeted and draped bust right, holding cross-tipped scepter / + ÐORR ON EOFERPI, voided short cross with pellet-in-annulet center and triple crescent ends; annulet in first quarter. Freeman 386; SCBI 54 (Stockholm), 1221 (same dies); North 825; SCBC 1179. VF, lightly toned.