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421, Lot: 752. Estimate $300.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (20mm, 1.36 g, 1h). Pointed Helmet type (BMC vii, Hild. F). Stamford mint; Arnfrithr, moneyer. Struck 1053-1056. Helmeted and draped bust right, holding cross-tipped scepter / + ÆRFREE ON STANFO, voided short cross with pellet-in-annulet center and triple crescent ends; annulet in first quarter. Freeman 16 (this coin referenced); SCBI 27 (Lincolnshire), 1436 (same rev. die); North 825; SCBC 1179. VF, richly toned, slight double strike on reverse. A rare type for mint.


Ex Clarendon Collection (Part I, Bonham’s, 28 March 2006), lot 109; Spink 6 (10 October 1979), lot 404; Heeley Collection (Glendining, 10 March 1956), lot 656.