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Auction: 22111 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 23: British and World Coins and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 4020

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Expanding Cross' Type, Light Coinage, Penny, 1050-1053, Exeter, Wulfmær, diademed and draped bust left, sceptre before, rev. + PVLFMÆR ON EXSEE, expanding cross, 1.03g, 3h (SCBI -; EMC 2022.???? this coin; North 820; BMC V; Spink 1176), slight furling to flan, otherwise lightly toned and handsomely struck up, a pleasingly good very fine, evidently an extremely rare type for the moneyer with none represented on SCBI or EMC prior to this single-find discovery

Provenance
"Found about four inches down whilst metal detecting on pasture farmland near Swanage, Dorset", 23 June 2022
~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, ref. EMC 2022.???? ~

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Sold for
£1,400

Starting price
£480