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Auction: 18012 - The Williams Collection Part II, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coins
Lot: 190

(x) Edward the Confessor (1042-66), Penny, 0.96g, PACX / Arm and Sceptre (Harthacnut) mule, Stamford, Godric, + edpard ng - rex, legend begins at 9 o'clock, helmeted and draped bust left, sceptre before, rev. + godric on stanfo, the nf ligate, around solid inner circle containing quadrilateral ornament over voided short cross (Pagan, BNJ 81 (2011), noted under 414 but not listed in corpus; cf. N.812; S.-), slightly crinckled flan, some small marks on the obverse and verdigris on the reverse, very fine, rare

provenance:
Baldwin auction 13, 28 May 1997, lot 1669
The catalogue notes that other examples of this mule are known, 'at Lincoln - Edwine (H 319); Godric (B A Seaby Ltd), and at Winchester - Saewine (SCBI 30, 555 = J Dresser lot 2219).


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