424, Lot: 674. Estimate $400. 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 (17mm, 1.03 g, 6h). Expanding cross type, light issue (BMC v, Hild. E). Colchester mint; Leofweard, moneyer. Struck 1050-1053. Diademed bust left; scepter before / + LEOFPÆRD ON [COLE]C, voided short cross with expanding limbs and circle around pellet-in-circle in center. Freeman 65; SCBI –; North 820; SCBC 1176. Near VF, toned, minor marks, areas of weak strike. Rare.

Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXIII.4 (August 2005), no. HS2157.