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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 345

(x) Edward 'the Confessor' (1042-1066), 'Facing Bust/Small Cross' Type, Penny, 1062-1065, Thetford, Godleof, + EADPARED REX •: crowned and draped facing bust, rev. + GODLEF ON ÐETF, small cross pattée, 1.10g [16.98grns], 3h (SCBI 1 [Fitzwilliam], 951 same dies; SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 1044 same dies; EMC 2019.0369 same dies [Larling]; Doubleday 526 this coin; North 830; BMC XIII; S.1183), softly struck to portrait, otherwise light cabinet tone, approaching very fine, rare

Provenance

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


Glendining, 8 October 1990, lot 765 - "About very fine, the dies rare"


Gordon Vincent Doubleday, Glendining, 6 October 1987, lot 526* - "obverse fine, face weak, reverse very fine" [with his ticket]


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

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

Estimate
£240 to £300

Starting price
£220