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Auction 93  5 May 2015
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Lot 60

Estimate: 400 GBP
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BRITISH COINS, Anglo-Saxon, Edward the Confessor, Fragmented Silver Pennies (4), all Expanding Cross type (1050-1053), all heavy coinage unless stated, Exeter mint (2), moneyers Hunwine and Edwi, 1.61g, 1.41g, Thetford mint, lighter coinage, moneyer Atsere, 1.12g, and Winchester mint, moneyer, Brihtwold, 1.66g; Cut Halfpenny, possibly Watchet or more likely Gloucester mint, moneyer Godcild or Godwine, all diademed bust left with sceptre, legend commences at top, rev short voided cross with expanding limbs and pellet centre within twin annulet, all within linear circle, the Halfpenny reads +GOD and ECE with hint of a P before, 0.80g (BMC type V; N 823; S 1176). Generally very fine or better and toned, all fragmented into broken halves, except for the cut Halfpenny and third piece of which only three-quarters is present. (5)
ex L A Lawrence collection, Glendining, 17 May 1950, first, second, fourth and last from lot 276, third lot 288 (part)
Cut Halfpenny catalogued as Winchester in Lawrence sale, though all now with identification tickets in the hand of F Elmore-Jones

Estimate: £400-600
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