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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 343

(x) Edward 'the Confessor' (1042-1066), 'Small Flan' Type, Penny, c. 1048-1050, Thetford, Ælfric, + EDI RD RE, diademed and draped bust left, rev. + LEFRIC ON ÐE, voided short cross, 1.08g [16.67grns], 12h (Carson 29; SCBI 18 [Copenhagen], 1223 same dies; SCBI 54 [Stockholm], 1046 same dies; Doubleday 509 this coin; North 818; BMC II [Coll. no. 1526]; S.1175), some die breaks, otherwise prettily cabinet toned, a pleasing and bolder very fine, rare

Provenance

The Martin Waldron Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet Coins


Glendining, 8 October 1990, lot 758 - "very fine, moneyer rare" [with lot envelope]


Gordon Vincent Doubleday, Glendining, 6 October 1987, lot 509* - "good very fine, the moneyer rare" [with his ticket]


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


Possibly:

F W Longbottom, Sotheby's, 14-15 May 1934, lot 61 [part]

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£300 to £400

Starting price
£280