CNG 102, Lot: 1490. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (19mm, 1.15 g, 3h). Hammer Cross type (BMC xi; Hild. G). Derby mint; Leofwine, moneyer. Struck circa 1059-1062. Crowned bust right, trefoil-tipped scepter before / + LIOFPINE ON DIRIII ·:, voided cross, arms terminating in inward-facing crescents. Freeman 58; SCBI 17 (Midlands), 439 (same dies?); North 828; SCBC 1182. VF, toned. Rare and desirable mint.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Spink 225 (22 September 2014), lot 215; Duke of Argyll Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, with his ticket; G. C. Drabble Collection (Glendining’s, 13 December 1943), lot 886.

The reverse legend has been variously read as DIRYN and DIRIM, leading to an attribution to a mint in Dereham, but the discovery of closely related dies clearly reading DIRBI confirm the attribution to Derby.