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Auction: 392 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC
Lot: 133

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Heavy Coinage, 'Expanding Cross' Penny, 1050-1053, Gloucester, Godric, + EDPE•RD REX: diademed and draped bust left, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + GODRIC ON GLEPECE: short cross voided with expanding limbs joined at the base by two circles, 1.68g [25.93grns], 9h, 17.91mm. x 1.52mm. diameter / thickness (SCBI 19 [Bristol], 389 same dies; North 823; BMC V; Spink 1177), an inconsequential depression to centre of flan, otherwise a superbly uniform and well struck-up example of this ever popular and instantly recognisable type, a most wholesome extremely fine, a scarce provincial mint in and extremely rare, only two examples traced on EMC/SCBI, both housed in the Bristol and Gloucester Museums

Provenance

Found in Froxfield and Steep District, East Hampshire, Wednesday 20 September 2023

~ Recorded with the Hampshire Cultural Trust, ref. PAS HAMP-AE9839 ~

Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, ref. EMC 2024.00??

Estimate
$2,400 to $3,000

Starting price
$2200