CNG 106, Lot: 1104. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny. Trefoil Quadrilateral type (BMC iii; Hild. C). Londene (London) mint; Brunman, moneyer. Struck 1046-1048. + EDPHE: RC R, diademed and draped bust left; trefoil-tipped scepter before / + BRVHMGH ON LVD, quadrilateral, with pellet in center and trefoils at angles, over voided short cross. Freeman 223; SCBI 54 (Stockholm), 785–6 (same rev. die); North 817; SCBC 1174. In NGC encapsulation, graded MS 65, iridescent gold and red toning.

Ex Millennia Collection (Goldberg 46, 26 May 2008), lot 251 (incorrectly attributed to Southwark mint); Dr. J. Y. Terner Collection; Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s, 22 April 1999), lot 568, enlarged on color pl. XIV (incorrectly attributed to Southwark mint).