Ex Doubleday and Rashleigh Collections

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 2052. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  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 (1.27 g, 3h). Hammer Cross (BMC XI) type. Hastings mint; Duninc, moneyer. Struck circa 1059-1062. EΛDPΛR RD RE, crowned bust right; scepter before / +DVNINC ON HÆST, voided cross, arms ending in inward-facing crescents; pellet in first quarter. Freeman 38; King 126; SCBI 42 (South Eastern), 1463-70 (same dies); BMC 515; North 828; SCBC 1182. EF, attractively toned, areas of weak strike.

Ex Pegasi XIX (18 November 2008), lot 691; Gordon V. Doubleday Collection (Glendining’s, 6 October 1987), lot 150 (with his ticket); J.C.S. Rashleigh Collection (Part III, Glendining & Co., 10 June 1953), lot 195 (part of).