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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 427

Harold I (1035-1040), 'Jewel Cross' Type, Penny, London, Widia, + HAR-OLD REX, diademed and draped bust left, rev. + PIDIA ON LVNDENE, 'jewel' cross, pellet at centre, 0.99g [15.3grns], 12h (SCBI 7 [Copenhagen], 428; SCBI 30 [American], 540 = EMC 1030.0540 this coin; North 808; Spink 1163), fields lightly porous and waterworn, nevertheless darkly retoned, struck details a bolder very fine, rare

Provenance

Spink, by private treaty, 1987 - £425

J W Garrett Part II, Bank Leu and NFA, 16-18 October 1984, lot 763*

Johns Hopkins University collection bequeathed by J W Garrett, 1942

Thomas L Elder Auction, 7 October 1921, lot 1018 - "DIDIA ON LVNDEN" [by private treaty, 21 October 1921]

Lyman Haynes Low Auction, 13 December 1904, lot 39 - "fine, very rare"

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Sold for
£600

Starting price
£500