Ex Doubleday – Published in Pagan

373, Lot: 615. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (17.5mm, 0.82 g, 12h). Pacx type (BMC iv, Hild. D). Theodford (Thetford) mint; Eadric, moneyer. Struck 1042-1044. Diademed bust left; quatrefoil-tipped scepter before / + ED : RIC : OM Ð : EOD, voided long cross with crescent at ends and pellet at center; P A C X in quarters. Pagan, Pacx 440.1 (dies B/b – this coin); SCBI 54 (Stockholm), 284-5; Freeman 61; North 813; SCBC 1171. VF, toned, peck mark, muddled strike.

From the R.D. Frederick Collection. Ex Buckland, Dix, Wood 6 (1 July 1994), lot 742; G.V. Doubleday Collection (Glendining’s, 6 October 1987), lot 504.