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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 353

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Penny, 1.70g, Expanding cross type, heavy issue, 1052-53, Lincoln, Brihtric, diademed bust left, sceptre before, rev. +brihtric on lin:, voided short cross with expanding arms extending from central pellet within two circles (Mossop Pl. LXXIII, No 24 - this coin; N.823; S.1177), corresponding striking weakness at three o'clock, mostly well-struck, toned and full, very fine or better

provenance:
Bt. Spink, December 1974, £70 (ticket by Patrick Finn)
H R Mossop collection

In the introduction to the Mossop collection sales catalogue, c.f. Glendining, 6 November, 1991, it is stated that; 'His Lincoln mint coins are retained for study at the City and County Museum, Lincoln'. It is not known how or why, after appearing in Mossop's 'The Lincoln mint c. 890-1279' in 1970, this piece ended up in Spink's trays.

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