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Auction: 20123 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 3 - Part I: The Penny: 'From Actium to the Anarchy' (31BC - AD 1154)
Lot: 1571

Edward the Confessor (1042-66), Penny, 'Hammer Cross' type, Bristol, Godwine, 1.20g, 6h, rev. + GODPINE ON BRVGSTO (Abergavenny Hoard [2016], no. 42 same dies; Freeman 78; N.828; BMC XI; S.1182), wavy flan with softness in parts to periphery, otherwise portrait neatly struck up, an unusual mint reading (BRVGSTO | BRVCSTO) known to Godwine and his contemporaries Ælfwine and Ælfric only, a bold very fine, rare

Provenance
The Isladulcie Collection of Medieval Pennies and Fractions
Acquired privately from J Moore, November 2006

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Estimate

Starting price
£220