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Auction 19006  24 Sep 2019
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Lot 230

Starting price: 210 GBP
Price realized: 850 GBP
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Edward the Confessor (1042-66), Penny, Pyramids type, Chester, Dunning, 1.32g, 3h, edþard rex •, legend starts at 8 o'clock, capped, bearded and draped bust of local style right, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + dvninc on lege, voided short cross, piles in angles (Freeman 100; Geddes, pp. 20; SCBI 5 (Chester) 377 same dies; SCBI 16 (Norweb) 218 same dies; SCBI 17 (Midlands) 489 same dies; Hildebrand, type I; BMC XV, -; N.831; S.1184), a compact and neat 'local style' striking, a pleasing very fine, rare, five examples traced by this cataloguer with this being the only specimen to appear in commerce in the last two decades.
Provenance
Bloomsbury Auctions, 14 September 2005, lot 726
E L Judson II, DNW 55, 8 October 2002, lot 1074,
Possibly
SCMB, December 1969, H2477 - a most unusual style of bust, not in BMC, nearly EF, RR' - £60.0.0
Estimate: £300 - £400
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