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Auction: 14007 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 524

Edward the Confessor (1042-66), Penny, 0.61g, small flan type, Huntingdon, Aelfwine, diademed bust left, variety with pellet on neck, rev. +elfþine on hv, voided short cross (FEJ 380 - same dies; Freeman 4, p.283; N.818; S.1175), some porosity but well centred, pleasantly toned and a particularly good reverse, good very fine, a rare type for Huntingdon and an interesting variety with pellet on neck

provenance
Found near Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire, 2011
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2011.0205

Out of a total 55 mints from the Confessor's reign represented in the R. J. Eaglen collection there wasn't a single specimen for Huntingdon

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Sold for
£700