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Auction: 24124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 36: British and World Coins and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 1532

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Pointed Helmet' Type, Penny, 1053-1056, Leicester, Godric, draped bust right, wearing pointed helmet, lys-tipped sceptre before, rev. + [GOD]RIC ON LEHER•, voided short cross with triple-crescent terminals, 1.156g [17.80grns], 4h ('Cotton's Anglo-Saxon Coins' [BNJ 2006], p. 200, no. 185 = PH249/93 AND 268 ~ ex Southgate, 1795; Freeman 46; Brooke 6; SCBI 17 [Midlands], 409 same dies [ex. Joseph Young, 1919]; North 825; BMC VII [Coll. 614]; S.1179), slightly crimped and light porosity, otherwise evenly toned, struck details generally bolder than very fine, an extremely rare type coin

Provenance

Stanley Gibbons Investment Portfolio, ref. CM001333

Baldwin FPL, Summer 2011, AS035 - "weak in parts with a nice portrait, toned a bold very fine, reverse weaker, very rare" - £1,250

Purchased by A H Baldwin, ref. P6747/FM42989, February 2011

E W Danson, DNW 68, 12 December 2005, lot 179 - "some corrosion, nearly very fine, very rare" - £280

B W Hunt, dispersed by Spink, 1955 - £3.10.0 [with his ticket]

Duke of Argyll, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1949

E H Wheeler, Second Portion, dispersed by Seaby, albeit not listed in the Fixed Price List, February 1931
Major P W P Carlyon-Britton, Third Portion, 11 November 1918, lot 1791 [part] - £2.12.0 [Wheeler]


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Sold for
£1,100

Starting price
£350