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Auction: 19004 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction
Lot: 52

Edward the Martyr (975-978), Penny, Lincoln, Leofing, 1.32g, eadvvard rex vnr, diademed and draped bust left, rev. levig h-o lndeol, small cross pattée (BNJ {1967}, pp. 57, no. 6, and pl. II, 7 this coin; SCBI XXVII {Lincolnshire}, 12, same dies; N.763; BMC I; S.1142), struck with aging dies, hence portrait softness, otherwise, of good metal, good fine

provenance
Purchased Baldwin, 5 June 1969 - £175.0.0 (with ticket in hand of Mitchell)
Mossop, collection part-purchased by Baldwin, 1966
E J Willes, Sotheby, 23 May 1966, lot 126 - £160.0.0 (Mossop)



This coin, along with the parcel of twelve others, all consigned by Mr Willes to the Sotheby sale were the subject of subsequent discussion by Blunt and Dolley in the British Numismatic Journal of the following year ("A parcel of Reform-type Pence of Eadgar and his Successors", pp. 55-58 and pl. II). They hypothesised, owing to the absence of a recorded provenance from the Willes family, that the inheritance coins had passed originated from the same source as those that form the basis of the Hermitage collection, as well as the unparalleled assemblage formed by William Hunter - namely an unrecorded major hoard from the Stamford area, c.1750. Mossop's study of the Lincolnshire mint recorded five obverse and nine reverse dies from fifteen documented examples.


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