Coins and Historical Medals

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Penny, Hammer Cross type, Norwich, Thorsteinn, dorstan o nor, four pellets behind king’s head, five pellets in one arm of the voided cross on rev., 1.36g/3h (Freeman 168; N 828; S 1182). Crimped with stress mark on reverse, otherwise about very fine, the variety rare £200-£260

Royal Berkshire Collection [bt 1976]

Struck from the same dies as the Ashmolean (SCBI 9, 958) and Elmore Jones (635) specimens.