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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 288

Edward the Confessor (1042-66), Penny, 1.09g, Expanding Cross type, Light Issue, Newport, Siward, diademed bust left, in front, sceptre with a trefoil head, rev. +SIPAR ON NIPEPOR, short cross voided with expanding limbs joined at the base by two circles, a single pellet in opposing angles (N820; S1176), pierced and creased, a crack running along the latter from 5 o’clock towards the centre, very fine, excessively rare

PROVENANCE:
W C Wells collection, purchased by Baldwin 1949
Baldwin 7, 2 May 1996, lot 506
R J Eaglen, Baldwin 18, 12-13 October 1998, lot 1490
SNC June 2000, no 2305

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