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Auction: 22004 - The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck and Simon English Esq. Collections of English Hammered and Milled Coins
Lot: 123

(x) The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck Collection of Numismatic Portraits from Medieval Flanders and Tudor England | Harold II Godwinesson (5 January - 14 October 1066), PAXS Type, Penny, Chester, Ælfsi, crowned bust left, sceptre before, rev. + ÆLFSI ON LESECE :, PAX in tablet, 1.27g [19.6grns], 6h [m.m. at 12h] (North 836; BMC I; Spink 1186), some peripheral die softness, otherwise lightly toned, a really good very fine, with a pleasingly bold portrait, a previously unpublished moneyer for Harold II at Chester also not represented in the recent Chew Valley Find

Provenance
Jean Elsen, Sale 81, 11 September 2004, lot 1241 [recte]


Ælfsi is recorded as a moneyer for Chester for Edward the Confessor's last or 'Pyramids' type (BMC XV) and latterly for William the Conqueror's BMC I/II (mule) and BMC II types. It would appear this discovery coin provides a logical missing link in the Mint organisation through the Saxo-Norman transition.

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£5,000

Starting price
£2500