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LOT 205
Sold for (Inc. bp): £414
Anglo-Saxon Edward the Confessor - Dover/Cynestan - Pointed Helmet Penny
1053-1056 AD. Obv: profile bust in pointed helmet holding sceptre with +EDPAR DREX legend. Rev: voided cross with triple crescent ends and +CNSTANONDOFERE legend with S sideways for the moneyer Cynestan at Dover mint. 1.19 grams.
Very fine; rare (only five coins of this type in EMC for Dover).
PROVENANCE:
Ex Binks collection; found Birchington, Kent, 1999.
LITERATURE:
S. 1179; N. 825; see EMC 2011.0118 (this coin).
