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Auction: 23006 - The Official COINEX Auction at Spink
Lot: 84

(x) NGC AU58 | Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Expanding Cross' Type, Heavy Coinage, Penny, 1050-1053, London, Beorhtsige, + EDPER D REX, diademed and draped bust left, quatrefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + BRICSIGE ON LVND: short voided cross with expanding limbs, 1h (cf. Oliver Burrows, "An Unnoticed Parcel from the 1872 Queen Victoria Street Hoard 1872", [BNJ, 1977], pp. 66-76, no, 39; Carlyon-Britton 1787 = Doubleday 296 same dies; North 823; BMC V; Spink 1177), lightly crimped flan, otherwise with a rich cabinet tone and lustre, pleasing portrait, good very fine, in NGC holder, graded AU58 (Cert. #4254684-001)

Provenance

Heritage Auction 3053, 17 January 2017, lot 36759

The rich toning and carbonisation spots strongly indicate this is a probable stray from the Queen Victoria Street (Walbrook, 1872) Hoard

cf. A Briggs, Sotheby's, 22 March 1893, lot 222 [part] - "...BRICSIGE. ON. LVND..." [Spink]

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Sold for
£580

Starting price
£450