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Auction 23107 31 Mar 2023
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The Owen-Rooke Collection | Edward 'the Confessor' (1042-1066), 'Facing Bust' Type, Penny, 1062-1065, Wallingford, Burgwine, + EADPARD REX A• unbarred As, crowned bust facing, rev. + BVREPINE ON PA, unbarred A, small cross, 0.97g, 3h (Freeman 79; Duke of Argyll = Doubleday 541 same dies; Arnot 351 same dies; SCBI 1 [Fitzwilliam], 954; SCBI 2 [Hunterian], 1154; SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 1054-1056, cf. 1054 same dies; SCBI 11 [Reading], 171 same dies; SCBI 17 [Midlands], 477; SCBI 20 [Mack], 1298; SCBI 68 [Lyon], 1031; North 830; BMC XIII [no. 1292]; Spink 1183), very lightly pitted surfaces to obverse, nevertheless pleasingly toned, very fine, scarce.
Provenance
The Owen-Rooke Collection of Oxfordshire Pennies (978-1272),
Examples offered as part of job lots at the L A Lawrence II (1951); V J E Ryan (1952); and H W Taffs (1956) are all possible candidates as an earlier pedigree for this coin, but all sadly lack definitive illustrations. The Capt. Arnot specimen sold in 1995 is an extraordinarily similar coin for general striking weakness and shape of flan, but is clearly not the same as the present coin.
Estimate: £240 - £300
Provenance
The Owen-Rooke Collection of Oxfordshire Pennies (978-1272),
Examples offered as part of job lots at the L A Lawrence II (1951); V J E Ryan (1952); and H W Taffs (1956) are all possible candidates as an earlier pedigree for this coin, but all sadly lack definitive illustrations. The Capt. Arnot specimen sold in 1995 is an extraordinarily similar coin for general striking weakness and shape of flan, but is clearly not the same as the present coin.
Estimate: £240 - £300