Auction Catalogue
Harold II (1066), Penny, PAX type variant, Dover, Manwine, manpine in dover, bust right, triple-banded crown, sceptre before face, all within beaded inner circle, 1.09g/9h (Pagan, NM p.191, this moneyer not recorded; N 836; S 1186). Flan creased with a few small perforations, otherwise very fine; the variety extremely rare with this probably the only specimen available to commerce £1,200-£1,500
found near Peasenhall (Suffolk) in 2021 (EMC 2021.0225)
Struck from the same obverse die as the Chew Valley examples. A coin struck by the moneyer Cinstan in the British Museum (BMC 10) utilises a obverse die of similar style.
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