Triton XVIII, Lot: 1727. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (19mm, 1.11 g, 9h). Hammer Cross type (BMC xi; Hild. G). Stænig (Steyning) mint; Deorman, moneyer. Struck circa 1059-1062. EΛDPΛR· RD RE Λ, crowned bust right, scepter before / + DIORMΛN ON STÆNIG, voided cross, arms terminating in inward-facing crescents. Freeman 8; King, Steyning 25; SCBI 1 (Fitzwilliam), 928-9; SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 982-3; SCBI 11a (Reading), 166; SCBI 20 (Mack), 1263; SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 798; SCBI 30 (American), 636-8; BMC 1213-4 (all from the same dies); North 828; SCBC 1182. Good VF, toned.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Davissons, 19 October 2009.