Triton XVIII, Lot: 1724. Estimate $300. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (18mm, 1.10 g, 9h). Pacx type (BMC iv, Hild. D). Lincolne (Lincoln) mint; Svafi, moneyer. Struck 1042-1044. + EDPAR · D REX :, diademed bust left; quatrefoil-tipped scepter before / + SP : AFA ON L INCO, voided long cross with crescent at ends and pellet at center; P A C X in quarters. Pagan, Pacx 176.2 (dies B/a – this coin); Mossop pl. LXVII, 7 (dies B/a) = SCBC 18 (Copenhagen), 999; Freeman 251; Hild 376; BMC –; North 813; SCBC 1171. VF, toned, small stress mark on reverse.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen FPL 249 (July-September 2009), no. 497; W.C. Boyd Collection (Baldwin’s 42, 26 September 2005), lot 844, with his original ticket, purchased from G. Snelling, February 1894.