Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XIX 26-27 Mar 2020
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Great Britain, Anglo-Saxon. Harold II (1066) AR Penny. London mint. Wulgar, moneyer. +HAROLD REX ANGLO :, crowned head left; sceptre before / +PVLGAR ON LVNI, PAX inscribed on panel with dotted edges, within circular dotted border. SCBC 1186; N. 836. 1.45g, 19mm, 3h.
Good Very Fine; attractive old cabinet tone. Rare.
Ex Spink & Son Ltd, Auction 12027, 4 December 2012, lot 19 (hammer £4,400).
Harold died at the Battle of Hastings having been king for only a few months. Harold rushed his exhausted and depleted troops down from Stamford Bridge near York, where he had beaten his brother Tostig and Danish supporters - some 200 miles in under two weeks to the south coast where William of Normandy had landed. This coin was struck in the few months prior to Harold's defeat and death at Hastings and signifies the end of Anglo-Saxon rule in England. It would be centuries before England's own ruling class would even consider itself English again, as opposed to a Norman-French elite ruling over a conquered foreign land which also gave rise to a new style of coinage.
Good Very Fine; attractive old cabinet tone. Rare.
Ex Spink & Son Ltd, Auction 12027, 4 December 2012, lot 19 (hammer £4,400).
Harold died at the Battle of Hastings having been king for only a few months. Harold rushed his exhausted and depleted troops down from Stamford Bridge near York, where he had beaten his brother Tostig and Danish supporters - some 200 miles in under two weeks to the south coast where William of Normandy had landed. This coin was struck in the few months prior to Harold's defeat and death at Hastings and signifies the end of Anglo-Saxon rule in England. It would be centuries before England's own ruling class would even consider itself English again, as opposed to a Norman-French elite ruling over a conquered foreign land which also gave rise to a new style of coinage.