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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 357

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Penny, 0.97g, Facing bust / Small cross type, London, Eadgar, crowned and draped facing bust, rev. +aedgar on lvnd, cross pattée with central pellet within inner circle (N.830; S.1183), once straightened leaving flan stress across reverse and resulting in perforations, also a flan crack at 3 o'clock, otherwise lustrous, toned, and extremely fine, Eadgar an extremely rare moneyer in this type at London

provenance:
Bt. Spink, March 1975, £70

Although Edgar is listed as a known moneyer in North he does not appear in Freeman. The SCBI database only lists an Eadgar in the Pyramids type at London, c.f. SCBI 30 American, No 654

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Sold for
£400