Auction Catalogue

27 June 2024

Starting at 12:00 PM

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British Coins

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Lot

№ 267

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To be sold on: 27 June 2024

Estimate: £500–£600

Place Bid

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Penny, Radiate/Small Cross type, Wallingford, Leofwine, leofpine on peli, 1.15g/9h (Freeman 92; SCBI Stockholm –; N 816; S 1173). Somewhat crimped, otherwise good very fine with light hoard patina; the mint very rare in this type, with only one other specimen known from this moneyer £500-£600

From an undefined Danish hoard; Baldwin Auction 18, 12-13 October 1998, lot 1310; Baldwin Auction 23, 3 May 2000, lot 864; Royal Berkshire Collection

Struck from the same dies as FEJ 858