Triton XVIII, Lot: 1728. Estimate $500. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (19mm, 1.35 g, 39h). Hammer Cross type (BMC xi var. a; Hild. G, var. a). Eoferwic (York) mint; Snæbjorn, moneyer. Struck circa 1059-1062. + EΛDPΛRD D RE, crowned bust right, scepter before / + SNEBORN ON EOF, voided cross, arms terminating in inward-facing crescents; annulet in first quarter. Freeman 338; SCBI 2 (Hunterian), 1140 (same dies); Hild. –; BMC 367 var. (obv. legend); North 828; SCBC 1182. Near EF, toned.

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