373, Lot: 616. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (20mm, 1.78 g, 3h). Expanding cross type, heavy issue (BMC v, Hild. E). Lincolne (Lincoln) mint; Ulfr, moneyer. Struck 1050-1053. Diademed bust left; trefoil-tipped scepter before / + VLF ON LINCOLNE, voided short cross with expanding limbs and circle around pellet-in-circle in center. Mossop pl. LXXV, 4 (dies A/a); SCBI 54 (Stockholm), 1172 (same dies); Freeman 315; North 823; SCBC 1177. VF, toned, peck marks, slightly wavy flan.

From the R.D. Frederick Collection.