Baldwin & Sons
Auction 93 5 May 2015
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BRITISH COINS, Anglo-Saxon, Harold II (6 January - 14 October 1066), Silver Penny, PAX type, Lewes mint, moneyer Oswold, crowned head left, sceptre in front, legend commences at top, +HAROLD REX ANG, outer beaded circle surrounding both sides, rev PAX between parallel beaded horizontal lines, inner beaded circle surrounding, legend commences lower left, +OZPOLD ON LEPEEI, 1.32g (SCBI 1:972-3, same dies; N 836; S 1186). Extremely fine, attractively toned and very pleasing, rare.
ex Chancton Farm Hoard, Steyning, Sussex, 1867
ex Sir John Evans (died 1908) collection, purchased by Spink, sold en bloc before auction sale
ex J Pierrepont Morgan (died 1913) collection, sold through his son 1915 with first choice going to the British Museum and majority of the remainder sold to Mr R C Lockett.
ex Richard Cyril Lockett collection, English portion (part I), Glendining, 6-9 June 1955, lot 867, sold for £11
ex Spink Numismatic Circular, December 2007, item HS3209
The Chancton Farm Hoard was reported to the Numismatic Society 18 April 1867 and published in the Numismatic Chronicle, third Series, volume VII, by Barclay V Head. The find consisted of at least 1720 coins (some were dispersed before this quantity reached the British Museum) of mainly Edward the Confessor. 58 examples were recovered of King Harold II of which 35 were of the moneyer Oswold working at the Lewes mint.
The two examples in the Fitzwilliam Museum referenced above are also from the Chancton Farm Hoard, one with an upright die axis and one with an inverted die axis. The coin offered here has a 3 o'clock die axis and all are struck from the same dies.
Estimate: £5000-7000
ex Chancton Farm Hoard, Steyning, Sussex, 1867
ex Sir John Evans (died 1908) collection, purchased by Spink, sold en bloc before auction sale
ex J Pierrepont Morgan (died 1913) collection, sold through his son 1915 with first choice going to the British Museum and majority of the remainder sold to Mr R C Lockett.
ex Richard Cyril Lockett collection, English portion (part I), Glendining, 6-9 June 1955, lot 867, sold for £11
ex Spink Numismatic Circular, December 2007, item HS3209
The Chancton Farm Hoard was reported to the Numismatic Society 18 April 1867 and published in the Numismatic Chronicle, third Series, volume VII, by Barclay V Head. The find consisted of at least 1720 coins (some were dispersed before this quantity reached the British Museum) of mainly Edward the Confessor. 58 examples were recovered of King Harold II of which 35 were of the moneyer Oswold working at the Lewes mint.
The two examples in the Fitzwilliam Museum referenced above are also from the Chancton Farm Hoard, one with an upright die axis and one with an inverted die axis. The coin offered here has a 3 o'clock die axis and all are struck from the same dies.
Estimate: £5000-7000