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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 437

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Hammer Cross' Type, Penny, 1059-1062, Oxford, Beorhtræd, + EADPAR-RD REX, crowned bust right, sceptre before, rev. + BRIHTRED ON OX: N reverse-barred, voided short cross with 'hammer cross' terminals, 1.31g [20.2grns], 12h (Grantley 1214b; SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 971-974, cf. 974 same dies; North 828; BMC XI; Spink 1182), on a pleasingly full flan, the obverse darkly toned, with orange hues to the reverse, a magnificently 'fresh' strike, good extremely fine and much as issued, rare in this condition and very rare with only three parallels traced, all in the Ashmolean collection

Provenance

SNC, June 1983, no. 3917 - 'extremely fine' - £300

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Starting price
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