CNG 109, Lot: 883. Estimate $600. Sold for $1215. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (17mm, 1.02 g, 6h). Facing Bust/Small Cross type (BMC xiii, Hild. Ac). Northampton mint; Sæwine, moneyer. Struck 1062-1065. EΛDRARD REX Λ, crowned facing bust / + SÆPINE ON HAM (horizontal S), short cross pattée. Wells, “The Northampton and Southampton Mints, Part II,” in BNJ XIX (1927-1928), pl. IV, 15 (this coin illustrated); Freeman 49; SCBI –; BMC –; North 830; SCBC 1183. Near EF, toned.

Ex William C. Wells Collection (purchased en bloc by Baldwin’s, 1949).