Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1436. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (1.12 gm). Malmesbury mint; Hunna, moneyer. Trefoil-Quadrilateral type, 1046-1048. +EDP •ERD RE, diademed bust left, with sceptre topped by spearpoint / +HVNNA ONN MEL, voided cross with quadrilateral and trefoils. Cf. Hildebrand 431 for obverse variety; North 817 var. (plain sceptre); SCBC -. EF, the strike somewhat “woolly” as Baldwin's put it. ($1000)

From the William J. Conte Collection; ex Baldwin's 14 (14 October 1997), lot 249. A

A triple rarity: rare obverse variety (the spear-sceptre otherwise known only from London), a rare mint (Malmesbury in Wiltshire), and a rare moneyer (the only coin of this type known for Hunna).