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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 436

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Hammer Cross' Type, Penny, 1059-1062, Guildford, Blacman, + EADPAR•-RD RE, crowned bust right, sceptre before, rev. + BLAEEMAN ON GLDF, voided short cross with 'hammer cross' terminals, 1.16g [17.9grns], 9h (SCBI -; North 828; BMC XI; Spink 1182), some slight softness to parts of the portait, yet the reverse with a most pleasing blue tone, good very fine, evidently an extremely rare issue for this mint and moneyer, with no parallel on EMC or SCBI

Provenance

CNG, Mail Bid Sale 47, 16 September 1998, lot 2389 - £380

Peter Spink, collection dispersed, April 1994

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Sold for
£2,200

Starting price
£500