CNG 90, Lot: 2402. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (19mm, 1.45 g, 7h). Pointed Helmet type (BMC viia, Hild. F). Eoferwic (York) mint; Thorr, moneyer. Struck 1053-1056. + EDPΛRD RX, bearded bust right, wearing pointed helmet, holding scepter / + ÐORR ON EOFERP, voided short cross with pellet-in-annulet center and triple crescent ends; annulet in 1st quarter. Freeman 386; SCBI 21 (Yorkshire), 320 (same dies); SCBI 54 (Stockholm), 1221 = Hild. 159 var. (legends); BMC 343 var. (same); North 825; SCBC 1179. VF, toned.

From the Peter Moffat Collection.