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Auction: 19006 - British, Indian and Islamic Coins: Autumn Auction
Lot: 232

Edward the Confessor (1042-66), Penny, Pyramids type, Lincoln, Ælmær, 1.28g, 12h, eadþard re, legend starts at 8 o'clock, crowned, bearded and draped bust right, inverted-trefoil tipped sceptre before, rev. + ielmier on linco:, voided short cross, piles in angles (Mossop -; Freeman -; cf. Corringham Hoard ~ Conte II, CNG 60, 2285; Hildebrand, type I; BMC XV, -; N.831; S.1184), some peripheral striking softness, the portrait otherwise attractively bold, with a darker 'cabinet' tone appearance, good very fine or better, this moneyer unknown to Mossop for type and thus far only scantly recorded at Lincoln early in the proceeding reign of William I, perhaps only one other available to commerce, otherwise unrepresented on EMC, very rare thus

Provenance
Lockdales 76, 24 January 2010, lot 1009

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£420

Starting price
£210