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Auction: 24006 - British and World Coins
Lot: 76

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Hammer Cross' Type, Penny, 1059-1062, Hastings, Brid, EADPAR-RD REX, crowned bust right, bearded, cross pattée tipped sceptre before, drapery with five horizontal folds extending to edge of flan, rev. + BRID : ON : HÆSTI, short cross voided with each limb terminating in an incurved segment of a circle, 1.26g [19.44grns], 9h (Freeman 8; Sussex Mints 80; HHK 121; SCBI 1 [Cambridge], 915; SCBI 11 [Reading], 162; SCBI 24 [West Country], 716-717; SCBI 30 [America], 628; SCBI 42 [South East], 1453-1462; SCBI 48 [North], 1050; North 828; BMC [Coll. 512]; S.1182), richly cabinet toned with indigo hues, a pleasingly good very fine, an emotive 11th Century Mint with a fine 19th Century pedigree

Provenance

The Hartland Collection of English Coins

A H Baldwin, by private treaty, c. 1955 - £0.6.0 [with this ticket in peculiar hand]
T Bearman, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1922 [with his ticket]

John G Hall, Sotheby's, 17-19 June 1889, lot 167 [part] - "...type 6, king’s head crowned, rev. BRID. ON. HÆSTI. (Hastings), cross voided, each limb terminating in an incurved segment of a circle, type of Hawkins. 222..."

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Estimate
£400 to £600

Starting price
£350