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Auction: 1011 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins, Commemorative Medals & Numismatic Books
Lot: 219

Edward the Confessor, Penny, 1.02g, facing bust / small cross type, Hastings, Colswegn, crowned facing bust, rev. +colsþegen on haes, small cross pattée within inner circle, a wedge attached to inner circle adjacent to each cross end (N.830 var.; S.1183 var.), reverse struck from rusty die, surface crack on obverse, nearly very fine, an interesting and rare variety Estimate £ 200-250 provenance Sherman collection, DNW, 12 December 2005, lot 242 Glendining, 14 June 1995, lot 86 PA Hodgkinson, Glendining, 16 May 1971, lot 478

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