CNG 96, Lot: 1419. Estimate $750. 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 (17mm, 1.06 g, 8h). Facing Bust/Small Cross type (BMC xiii, Hild. Ac). Eoferwic (York) mint; Thorr, moneyer. Struck 1062-1065. + EΛDPΛERD RE+ (quatrefoil), crowned facing bust / + ÐORR ON EOFR•, short cross pattée; annulet in 4th quarter. Freeman 389; SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 826 var. (same obv. die; longer mint name, annulet in 1st quarter); Hild. –; cf. BMC 372–3; North 830; SCBC 1183. Good VF, dark old toning.

From the Andrew Wayne Collection. Lot includes old collection or dealer ticket marked “from Montagu Lot 130 11/5/96.” That Montagu lot did include a coin of this type.