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Auction: 9031 - Ancient, English and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 164

Edward the Confessor, Penny, 1.61g, expanding cross type, heavy issue, Winchcombe, Goldwine, diademed bust left, sceptre before, rev. voided short cross with expanding limbs joined at base by two circles, +goldpine on pinc (cf. SCBI 19/185-different dies; N.823; S.1177), slight crimping, light surface scuffs, pleasing detail, good very fine, an extremely rare mint, probably the only example of this issue for this mint outside a museum Estimate £ 3,000-3,500 provenance Found 2008, near Chichester, West Sussex Winchcombe is an extremely rare mint recorded for only seven coins for the reign of Edward the Confessor and only forty -five for the entire period between 973 and 1066. Other than this coin, there is one other example recorded of a Winchcombe expanding cross type Penny which is in the Gloucester Museum. This new coin is from different dies. The mint signature on this coin was once thought to refer to Winchester but it is now accepted that Goldwine only worked at Winchcombe between the small flan type of Edward the Confessor and the Paxs type of William I.

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