Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 2152. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008. Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (1.26 g, 6h). Pointed helmet type (BMC VII). Chichester mint; Ælfwine, moneyer. Struck 1053-1056. + EDPER•D RE•, helmeted bust right, holding scepter / ÆLFPINE ON CICEST, voided short cross with triple-crescent ends and pellet-in-annulet at center. Freeman 6; SCBI 42 (South-Eastern), 1254 (same dies); BMC 110 (same dies); North 825; SCBC 1179. EF, toned.
From the Ross Schraeder Collection.