Unique Variety – Ex Lockett and Carlyon-Britton

CNG 90, Lot: 2406. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (19mm, 1.28 g, 7h). Hammer Cross type (BMC xi; Hild. G). Northwic (Norwich) mint; Thorsteinn, moneyer. Struck circa 1059-1062. + ÆDPARD RE·, crowned bust right; scepter before, cross of four pellets behind / + ÐORSTΛN O NOR, voided cross, ends terminating in inward-facing crescents, five pellets in one arm of cross. P. Carlyon-Britton, “Edward the Confessor and his Coins” in NC 1905, p. 194 and pl. VIII, 20 = H.A. Parsons, “Symbols and double names on late Saxon coins,” BNJ XIII (1916), p. 54, fig. 47 (this coin); Freeman 168 (this coin referenced); SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 958 var. (same obv. die, three pellets in cross on rev.); Hild. –; BMC –; North 828; SCBC 1182. Good VF, toned. Unique variety with cross of pellets on obverse and five pellets in cross on reverse.

From the Collection of an Underwriter. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXI.6 (November/December 2003), no. HS1419; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Glendining, 26 April 1960), lot 3819 (part of); P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton Collection (Part 2, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 November 1916), lot 1159a.