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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 346

(x) Edward 'the Confessor' (1042-1066), 'Pyramids' Type, Penny, 1065-1066, Thetford, Godwine, EADPARD REX, bearded and crowned bust right, trefoil of pellets on neck, trefoil tipped sceptre before, rev. + GODPNE ON ÐETFORI, short voided cross, pyramid in angles, 1.32g [20.37grns], 11h (Carson -; SCBI -; Doubleday 530 this coin; North 831; BMC XV; S.1184), struck with an aging obverse die, otherwise richly cabinet toned, a most pleasing and wholesome good very fine, and evidently an extremely rare type for Thetford, with no parallel traced on EMC/SCBI

Provenance

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


Gordon Vincent Doubleday, Glendining, 6 October 1987, lot 530* - "an extremely rare type for the mint, Freeman, pp. 251-3, notes only six specimens (4 moneyers)" [with his ticket, and with ticket and lot envelope]


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


Possibly:
SNC, October 1908, no. 58412 - £0.15.0

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

Estimate
£400 to £600

Starting price
£360