Triton XXII, Lot: 1390. Estimate $4000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harold II. 1066. AR Penny (19mm, 1.33 g, 12h). PAX type (BMC i, Hild. A). London mint; Wulfweard, moneyer. + HΛROLD REX ΛNGL, crowned head left; scepter before / + PVLFPΛRD ON LVN, PAX across central field. SCBI 48 (Northern), 208 var. (legend stops); cf. Hild 3; BMC –; North 836; SCBC 1186. Near EF, toned, small spot of red wax. Well struck. Rare.

From the Londinium Collection. Ex Prof. G. W. de Wit Collection (Künker 137, 11 March 2008), lot 3177; Gordon V. Doubleday Collection (Glendining’s, 6 October 1987), lot 307; G. C. Drabble Collection (Part 2, Glendining, 13 December 1943), lot 893; E. H. Wheeler Collection (Sotheby & Co., 12 March 1930), lot 128 (part of); P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton Collection (Part 1, Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 17 November 1913), lot 659.