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Rare Variety without Beard

435, Lot: 591. Estimate $300.
Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (20mm, 1.29 g, 9h). Hammer cross type (BMC vii var., Hild. F var.). London mint; Osmund, moneyer. Struck 1059-1062. Crowned bust right without beard, scepter before / + OMVND ON LVNDE, voided cross, arms terminating in inward-facing crescents. Freeman 638; SCBI 11 (Reading), 164 (same obv. die); North 828 var. (with beard); SCBC 1182 var. (same). VF, toned. Very rare variety without beard.


From the Londinium Collection.