Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 1256. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (0.67 g, 7h). Small flan type, 1048-1050. London mint; Lifinc, moneyer. +VD: REEPR, diademed bust left / +L• CONCEPOR• I•, short voided cross; annulet in 1st quarter. SCBI 24 (West Country), 675 = Lockett 800 (same dies); BMC 1298 (same dies); North 818; SCBC 1175. Good VF, old collection toning. ($300)

Ex William J. Conte Collection; Peter Spink Collection.

Based on a die link with BMC 828, R.H.M. Dolley proved that the reverse is a blundered die of the moneyer Lifinc at London (cf. Dolley, "'L(O)C(I)' on Eleventh Century English Coins," NumChron 1961, p. 164).