Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 2153. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $435. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (1.35 g, 6h). Sovereign/Eagles type (BMC IX). Winchester mint; Ælfwine, moneyer. Struck 1056-1059. EΛDVVEΛRDVS REX ΛNGLO, Edward seated facing, holding orb in left hand and scepter with right hand / + ÆLFPINE ON PINCES, voided short cross; eagle in each quarter. Freeman 27; SCBI 42 (South-Eastern), 1401 (same dies); BMC 1441; North 827; SCBC 1181. VF, toned, some minor flat spots.

From the Ross Schraeder Collection.