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Auction: 23006 - The Official COINEX Auction at Spink
Lot: 86

The John Chatwin Collection | Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Expanding Cross' Type, Heavy Issue, Penny, 1050-1053, Norwich, Leofwine, + EDPE-RD RE(CX), diademed and draped bust left, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. :+: L•EOFPINE ON NORÐ short cross voided with expanding limbs joined at the base by two circles, 1.56g [24.07grns], 7h (Freeman 95; SCBI 18 [Copenhagen IV], 1134 same dies; North 823; BMC V; Spink 1177), converted into jewellery, the obverse rubbed flat, the reverse lightly gilded, fair / very fine, and of great socio-numismatic interest

Provenance

From the John Chatwin Collection of English Hammered Coins

M Vosper, by private treaty, 7 November 2000 - "ex-brooch because rev. is gilded & obv. shows signs of being mounted, Fair-F/F, Rare" - £49




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Sold for
£110

Starting price
£65