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Auction: 24004 - British and World Coins and Medals Spring Auction
Lot: 43

(x) Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Hammer Cross' Type, Penny, 1059-1062, Lewes, Osweald, +ADPAR•-RD RE [sic], crowned bust right, bearded, cross pattee tipped sceptre before, drapery with five horizontal folds extending to edge of flan, rev. + OSPOLD : ON LÆPE·:, short cross voided with each limb terminating in an incurved segment of a circle, 1.30g [20.1grns], 1h (Hildebrand -; SCBI 1 [Cambridge, Part I], 924 = MEC 8 [Fitzwilliam], 2259 same obverse die; [and, 2260 same dies]; SCBI 9 [Oxford, Part I], 952 same dies; SCBI 18 [Copenhagen, Part IV], -; SCBI 20 [Mack], 1251 same dies; SCBI 42 [South Eastern Museums], 1503-1506 same dies, [and 1507-1508 same obverse die; SCBI 54 [Stockholm, Part V], -; SCBI 66 [Norwegian, Part II], -; FEJ 445; North 828; BMC XI [Coll. no. 601 same dies]; Spink 1182), dark toning, small surface crack on obverse, relatively common although none held in Scandinavian collections, very fine

Provenance

The Steve J Green Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins [with his tickets and envelope]

Dr. Andrew Wayne, CNG Auction 102, 19 May 2016, lot 1492 - $400

Baldwin FPL, Summer 2014, AS054

Baldwin 77, 27 September 2012, lot 2561 - lightly toned, tiny superficial fissure by nose of portrait to three o'clock, a few tiny marks, otherwise good very fine


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Sold for
£480

Starting price
£180