LOT 3833
Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor AR Penny. Struck 1053-1056. York mint; Thorr, moneyer. Pointed Helmet type (BMC vii, Hild. F).
✠ EDPER-D REX, helmeted and draped bust to right, holding cross-tipped sceptre / ✠ ÐORR ON EOFERPI, voided short cross with pellet-in-annulet centre and triple crescent ends; annulet in first quarter. North 825; SCBC 1179. Good Very Fine. Toned. Detailed portrait.(1.38gr, 19mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceEx Spink and Sons Ltd.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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LOT 3833
Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor AR Penny.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
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Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Uncertain King II AE Styca. 9th century AD. Uncertain moneyer.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Illegible inscription around central motif / Illegible inscription around central motif. Cf. SCBC 859-872. 1.01gr, 13mm.
Good Fine. Possibly overstruck on another issue.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Aethelred II AE Styca. First or second reign, 841-843/4 and 843/4-849/50. York mint; Leofdegn, moneyer.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
+ EDELRED REX around central ω / + LEOFDEJИ around central short cross pattée within plain border. Pagan, "The Bolton Percy Hoard of 1967," in BNJ 43 (1973), 201; Pirie, Guide 3.10i; North 188; SCBC 865 & 868. 1.07gr, 12mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Eadberht with Archbishop Ecgberht AR Sceatt. 737-758. York mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
E◊TBEREhTVΓ around central small cross pattée / ECςBERhT, mitred figure standing facing, head to right, holding long cross and crozier. Pirie, Guide 2.2a-c; North 192; SCBC 852. 0.90gr, 13mm, 4h.
Very Fine.
Found near York, Yorkshire, UK. Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0311.
