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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 313

Edward the Confessor (1042-66), Penny, 1.23g, Transitional Pyramids type, Droitwich, Hethewulf, bust facing, bearded and crowned, holding a sceptre in the right hand and an orb in the left, rev. +HEĐEPI ON PIEPIC, short cross voided; in each angle, a pyramid from the inner circle and terminating in a pellet (N835; S1185), the obverse weak, otherwise very fine, the reverse a bit better, an extremely rare mint and type

PROVENANCE:
G C Drabble, Glendining 4 July 1939, lot 541
Duke of Argyll collection, purchased by Spink 1949
J J North collection, purchased by Spink 1964
Spink 6, 10-11 October 1979, lot 440
P Spink collection, bt. 1994
W J Conte, CNG Triton VI, 14-15 January 2003, lot 1464

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