Triton XVIII, Lot: 1725. Estimate $500. 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 (20mm, 1.25 g, 12h). Sovereign/Martlets type (BMC ix; Hild. H). Hæstinga (Hastings) mint; Dunning, moneyer. Struck 1056-1059. + EΛDPΛRD REX ΛИGLOL, Edward seated facing on throne, holding scepter in right hand and globus cruciger in left / + DVИИIИC OИИ HΛES ·, voided cross, with martlet in each quarter. Freeman 37 (this coin cited); SCBI 20 (Mack), 1232 (same dies); Hild –; BMC 511; North 827; SCBC 1181. VF, toned.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen FPL 249 (July-September 2009), no. 497; Baldwin’s 55 (7 May 2008), lot 2279; Glendining’s (7 December 1983), lot 89.