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406, Lot: 945. Estimate $300.
Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (19mm, 1.29 g, 3h). Hammer Cross type (BMC xi; Hild. G). Chester mint; Huscarl, moneyer. Struck circa 1059-1062. Crowned bust right; scepter before / + HVZ CΛRL O(N L)EGECC, voided cross, arms terminating in inward-facing crescents. Freeman 128; SCBI 5 (Chester), 357-8 (same dies); North 828; SCBC 1182. Good VF, toned, two striking splits and small striking perforation.


Ex Spink 238 (27 June 2016), lot 1178; London Coins 151 (5 December 2015), lot 2097.

Evocative moneyer name derived from old Norse Hús (household) and karl. (man), used in England to mean the Danish retainer of a household. By the late Anglo-Saxon period the housecarls were typically elite warriors who formed the king’s bodyguard. Our moneyer ceases to strike coins after the Conquest. One wonders if he, like many of the housecarls, fell in battle at Hastings along with his king.