CNG 90, Lot: 2404. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (20mm, 1.37 g, 12h). Pointed Helmet type (BMC vii, Hild. F). Theodford (Thetford) mint; Godleof, moneyer. Struck 1053-1056. + EDPE·D REX, bearded bust right, wearing pointed helmet, holding scepter terminating in fleur / + GODELEOF ON ÐEOT, voided short cross with pellet-in-annulet center and triple crescent ends. SCBI 20 (Mack), 1218 (this coin); Freeman 116 (this coin cited); Carson 73; Hild. –; BMC 1544; North 825; SCBC 1179. VF, toned. Very rare, only nine coins of this type recorded for Thetford.

From the Collection of an Underwriter. Ex Spink 152 (14 March 2001), lot 1055; Spink Numismatic Circular XCIII.9 (November 1985), no. 7960; R.P. Mack Collection, 1218 (his ticket included, not in Glendining sales), who purchased it from Spink, 16 October 1961; reportedly ex Duke of Argyll Collection.

As with the previous lot, the Duke of Argyll pedigree has been added to this coin in a recent Spink sale. As Spink purchased the Argyll collection in 1949, it is possible that they have records verifying this.