345, Lot: 682. Estimate $200. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (19mm, 1.06 g, 3h). Trefoil Quadrilateral type (BMC iii; Hild. C). Theodford (Thetford); Leofwine, moneyer. Struck 1046-1048. Diademed and draped bust left; trefoil-tipped scepter to left / Quadrilateral, with pellet in center and trefoils in quarters, over voided short cross. Freeman 173; cf. SCBI 18 (Copenhagen), 1222; cf. SCBI 26 (East Anglia), 1277; BMC –; North 817; SCBC 1174. VF, toned, minor flan waviness.

From the Patrick H. James Collection.