Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 2154. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (1.30 g, 7h). Hammer cross type (BMC XI). Lewes mint; Oswold, moneyer. Struck 1059-1062. + ΛDPΛR•RD RE, crowned bust right; scepter to right / + OSPOLD: ON LÆPE (trefoil), voided short cross, limbs ending in inward-facing crescents. Freeman 128; King 262; SCBI 42 (South-Eastern), 1507-8 (same dies); BMC 601; North 828; SCBC 1182. Good VF, toned.

From the Ross Schraeder Collection.