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Auction: 23107 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 27: British and World Coins, Medals and Tokens Featuring the 'Leja Park' Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 7043

The Owen-Rooke Collection | Edward 'the Confessor' (1042-1066), 'Pyramids' Type, Penny, 1065-1066, Oxford, Beorhtweald, + EADPAR[D] REX, crowned and draped bust right, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + [B]RIHTPOLD ON OX: voided short cross, pyramids in angles, 1.15g, 3h (Carlyon-Britton I, [1913], 648a 'unpublished'; SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 1071-1072, cf. 1071 same dies; North 831; BMC XV; Spink 1184), lightly crimped, with obstrusive striking softness and traces of rust to reverse, otherwise toned, almost very fine, very rare, with only two parallels traced, both impounded at the Ashmolean

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The Owen-Rooke Collection of Oxfordshire Pennies (978-1272)

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£160