The David Griffiths Collection of Hertford Mint Pennies

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Penny, Deorsige, drsiie on rfor, 0.92g/9h (Freeman 11, this specimen listed; N 813; S 1171). Small surface crack (north-south) down arm of cross, otherwise very fine and extremely rare of this mint (£700-900)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Griffiths Collection of Hertford Mint Pennies.

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Provenance:
H. Montagu Collection, Part II, Sotheby Auction, 11-16 May 1896, lot 135 (part), where ascribed to Bedford;
bt Baldwin.

Sold with Elmore Jones ticket re-attributing the coin to Hertford