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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 303

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Hammer Cross' Type, Penny, 1059-1062, Wilton, Ælfweald/Ælfweard, + EADPAR-RD RE, crowned, draped and bearded bust right, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + ALFPOL•D ON PILT•VN•E, voided short cross with each limb terminating in incurved segment of circle, 1.11g [17.13grns], 9h (Hildebrand - [Type G]; SCBI 1 [Fitzwilliam], 932 same obverse die / [reverse reads ALFPORD]; Freeman 38; cf. SNC December 1970, no. 13817 [reads ÆLFPOLD ON PILTV]; North 828; BMC XI; Spink 1182), superficial verdigris staining to peripheries, otherwise the portrait particularly well struck, toned, a pleasingly bold very fine, and evidently an excessively rare type for this moneyer

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1985 - £170


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£480

Starting price
£120