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Auction: 24004 - British and World Coins and Medals Spring Auction
Lot: 44

(x) Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Facing Bust / Small Cross' Type, Penny, 1062-1065, Colchester, Beorhtric, + •EADPARD REX, crowned and draped facing bust within inner circle, two lines to crown, seven pellets on breast, rev. + BRIHTRIC ON COLEC, small cross pattée within inner circle, 1.038g [16.0grns], 9h (Hildebrand -; Freeman 19; SCBI 9 [Oxford, Part I], 1015 same obverse die; SCBI 30 [American], 642 this coin; SCBI 18 [Copenhagen, Part IV], -; SCBI 42 [South Eastern Museums], -; SCBI 54 [Stockholm, Part V], -; SCBI 66 [Norwegian, Part II], -; BNJ, 'Pennies of the Colchester Mint', p. 17, no. 142 [BM]; Braintree Hoard -; North 830; BMC XIII; Spink 1183), weak strike on drapery and correspondingly on reverse, the portrait baring antique scratches, toned, almost very fine, very rare

Provenance

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

DNW 188, 9 February 2021, lot 116 - £440

Norweb, Part III, Spink Auction 56, 19 November 1986, lot 827 - "weak drapery (and corresponding on reverse), otherwise fine, very rare"

SCMB, August 1971, H1094* - "nearly VF" - £65

SCMB, March 1971, H699* - "a very rare type for this mint, not in B.M.C. or Hildebrand, VF" - £65



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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£180