CNG 90, Lot: 2403. Estimate $750. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (19mm, 1.20 g, 9h). Pointed Helmet type (BMC vii, Hild. F). Northwic (Norwich) mint; Thorsteinn, moneyer. Struck 1053-1056. + EDPER(three pellets)D REX, bearded bust right, wearing pointed helmet, holding scepter; pellet behind / + ÐVRSTAN O NORÐPI, voided short cross with pellet-in-annulet center and triple crescent ends. SCBI 20 (Mack), 1216 (this coin); Freeman 166 (this coin cited); SCBI 54 (Stockholm), 1209-10 = Hild. 611 var. (legends); BMC –; North 825; SCBC 1179. Near EF, toned.

From the Collection of an Underwriter. Ex R.P. Mack Collection (Part I, Glendining, 18 November 1975), lot 198 (his ticket included), who purchased it from Spink, 21 July 1959; reportedly ex Duke of Argyll Collection.

The consignor purchased this coin from Spink in February 2008. On the ticket from Spink, the Duke of Argyll collection is cited, but this pedigree does not appear in the Mack sylloge, nor on Mack’s collection ticket. Nonetheless, the coin may be from Argyll, as that collection was purchased by Spink in 1949, from whom Mack bought this coin in 1959. Interestingly, the Mack sylloge cites “bt. Spink 1957,” but this is apparently erroneous, as Mack’s own ticket cites the date of purchase as “21/7/59.” Thus, the Argyll pedigree also may have been erroneously left out of the sylloge.