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Auction: 15004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 545

Edward the Confessor (1042-66), Penny, 1.26g, Sovereign / eagles type, Wareham, Sideman, +eadpard rex anglo, king enthroned facing, orb in left hand, sceptre in right, rev. +sideman on parn, short cross voided with eagle in each angle (Freeman 27 - the Roth specimen referenced; N.827; S.1181), the eagles on reverse a tad weak, old collection tone, good very fine and Wareham a scarce west country mint

provenance:
Spink, (ticket in the hand of May Sinclair)
Baldwins (ticket in the hand of A. H. Baldwin, priced 15/-)
B. Roth, Pt. II, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 14-17 October 1918, lot 98 (part), this lot purchased by Baldwins
City Hoard, discovered 1872

For further reading on the City hoard, c.f. Numismatic Chronicle, Vol.XVI (1876), p.323-94. For interest the first paragraph is reproduced here: 'In the course of excavations carried on in the City in 1872, a very large number of Saxon pennies were discovered. About 2,800 came into my possession through the medium of the late Mr. Baily of Gracechurch Street, from whom, however, I could obtain no information as to the particulars of the find, the greatest secrecy being observed. In the absence, therefore, of further information as to the exact locality, I have, in the following account, referred to the find as the "City Hoard" when speaking of it with other collections.'. The hoard contained two Sovereign / eagles pennies of Sideman at the Wareham mint.

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Sold for
£1,700