The Facing Bust/Small Cross Coinage of

Edward the Confessor

 

1042-1054
BMC xiii
Hildebrand Ac
Seaby # 1183
North # 830

 

Image Description Notes

 

 

  • Penny
  • GODǷINE ON BRVCE
  • 1.06gm/17.79mm
  • EX Baldwin's Fall 2011 Argentum Auction(19 November 2011), lot 193, part of; Raymond Carylon-Britton Collection(collection dispersed through Seaby between 1938 and 1961); Philip W. P. Carlyon-Britton(ticket)

 

Bristol; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 343, coin 40 for a possible die match. There are no coins of the mint/moneyer/type comination in the EMC/Sylloge database.
  • Penny
  • GODǷINE ON GRAN
  • 0.88gm/16.30mm
  • EX: Leu Numismatik Web Auction 20(18-Jul-2022), lot 3546
Cambridge

 

 

  • Cut 1/2 Penny
  • SIRED [ON CAN]TV
  • 0.50gm/17.00mm

 

 

Canterbury; SCBI 42-Southeastern:1572; EMC 2017.0106. See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 347, coin 101 for a possible die match. Rare moneyer for this mint.

 

 

  • Penny
  • GOLDMAN ON COLE
  • 0.50gm/16.00mm

 

 

Colchester, scarce mint/moneyer/type combination. None in the BMC volumes and one in the EMC databae which is from different dies, EMC 2020.307.
  • Cut 1/2 Penny
  • HEAÐ[ǷVULF O]N ǷIC
  • 0.33gm/15.35mm
  • EX: Jon Mann
Droitwich; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 451, coin 1486 for a possible die match. The coin was listed under Winchester and has since been shown to be from Droitwich. No coins of the mint in the EMC/Sylloge database before 1066.

 

 

  • Penny
  • DVNNINC ON [HE]ST
  • 0.82gm/17.54mm

 


Hastings; SCBI 42-Southeastern: 1589; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 378, coin 520 for a possible die match. Scarce variety with a bar in the reverse field

 

 

  • Penny
  • ÐREODRED ON HÆS
  • 0.91gm/17.89mm
  • EX; Andy Singer; Spink Numismatic Circular(February 1994), item number 199; P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton

 

 

Hastings; SCBI-09-Ashmolean:.1018; SCBI 20-Mack:1283; SCBI 42-South-Eastern Museums: 1592 and 1593. See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 378, coin 521 for a possible die match.

  • Penny
  • BRIHTRIC ON GIPP
  • 1.16gm/16.75
  • EX: St. James Auction 83(29 November 2023), lot 88
Ipswich; SCBI 42-South-Eastern Museums: 1600(possible die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • ÆLFSI ON LVNDE:
  • 1.11gm/16.56mm
  • EX: DNW 274(7 June 2023), lot 88

 

 

London

  • Penny
  • EDǷINE ON LVNDE:
  • 1.04gm/16.76mm
  • EX: From the collection of Thomas Bentley Cederlind sold at CNG Electronic Auction 384(12 October 2016), lot 831
London; scarce varity with triple pellets to left of bust

 

 

  • Penny
  • OMVND ON LVND
  • 1.13gm/17.50mm
  • EX CNG Electronic Auction 365(16 December 2015), lot 517; Spink Numismatic Circular CVIII/1(Febrary 2000), number 170; Dr. R. J. Eaglen sold at Baldwins Auction 18(13 October 1998), lot 1484

 

 

London; SCBI 27-Lincolnshire: 1768; extremely rare moneyer for type, only one example in SCBI, none in EMC.

 

 

  • Penny
  • ǷVLFRI ON LVNDE
  • 0.93gm/17.80mm
  • EX: Baldwin's(ticket)

 

 

London; scarce type for the moneyer. No coins of the mint/moneyer/type combintion in the EMC/Sylloge database, or the BMC volumes.

 

 

  • Penny
  • GOLDǷINE ON MÆL•
  • 1.12gm/17.03mm
  • From the collection of Michael Trenerry sold at DNW 249(1 Febrary 2022), lot 45(tickets); Collection of Michael Trenerry sold at DNW 194(7 September 2021), lot 36(unsold), Doubleday, Glendining(6 October 1987), lot 343(ticket); W. C. Wells(bought by Baldwins 1949)(ticket); Sotheby's(20 December 1926), lot 207; (Coin came with mystery ticket.)
Maldon; Rare type for the mint. None found in the SCBI or EMC. One in the BMC which is from different dies.

 

 

  • Penny
  • RIHIǷI•ON MALME
  • 0.99gm/17.98mm
  • Found May 2012 at Hinton Ampner, Bramdean, Alresford, Hampshire

 

Malmesbury; EMC 2012.0168(this coin); there are a further five fragments of this coin not pictured here. Probable die match to EMC 2007.0220

 

 

  • Cut 1/2 Penny
  • [SÆǷ]INE OH HA[MT]
  • 0.37gm/16.76mm
  • Detector find near Amesbury, Buckinghamshire

 

 

Northamton; EMC 2018.0237(this coin)

 

 

  • Penny
  • EDǷINE ON NORÐ
  • 0.92gm/17.86mm

 

 

Norwich; SCBI 9-Ashmolean: 1029; SCBI 26-East Anglian: 1339 and 1340. See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 420, coin 1107 for a possible die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • ǷV[LFM]ÆR ON RVME
  • 0.92gm/17.60mm
  • EX: From the collection of Nicholas Rhodes sold at Spink Auction 18006(26 September 2018), lot 1590, purchased from Mark Senior in November 1993 for £130

 

 

Romney; SCBI 9-Ashmolean: 1039 and 1040; SCBI 30-American Collections: 649.
  • Penny
  • GODRIC•ON•SVDǷ
  • 1.07gm/17.42mm
  • From The Braintree Hoard of Late Anglo-Saxon Pennies sold at Noonans Auction 290(21 February 2024), lot 1017
Southwark: SCBI 42-Southeastern: 1617(possible die match). See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 434, coin 1256 for a possible die match. Scarce type for the mint.

 

 

  • Penny
  • ATSER ON ÐETFOR
  • 1.02gm/18.00mm

 

 

Thetford; SCBI 9-Ashmolean: 1043; SCBI 42-Southeastern: 1629; moneyer known only for this reign and mint.

 

 

  • Penny
  • BRIH[TM]ER ON ǷA
  • 0.93gm/17.34mm

 

 

Wallingford; SCBI 1-Fitzwilliam Museum: 953(reverse diematch). See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 437, coin 1292 for a possible die match

 

 

  • Penny
  • LEOFǷINE•ON ǷILT
  • 1.03gm/17.50mm
  • EX: G. V. Doubleday sold at Glendining's(6 October 1987), lot 553, listed as only type of the moneyer

 

 

Wilton; SCBI 54 - Stockholm V: 1267

 

 

  • Penny
  • ANDERBODE•ON ǷI
  • 1.09gm/17.67mm

 

 

Winchester; SCBI 11-Reading: 172; SCBI 42-Southeastern: 1631. See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 451, coins 1484 and 1485 for a possible die matches

  • Penny
  • ǷICINC ON ǷIH[?]
  • 1.02gm/16.16mm
  • EX Lord Stewartby 1, Spink 16019(22 March 2019), lot 308(bt May 1978)
Worcester; possible die match to EMC 1988.0190

  • Penny
  • IOCTELON EORI
  • 1.01gm/17.23mm
York; SCBI 2-Hunterian Museum: 1158(die match); SCBI 21-Yorkshire: 524 and 527(obverse die matches)

 

 

  • Penny
  • SCVLA ON EOFRǷI
  • 1.11gm/17.90mm

 

 

York; SCBI 21-Yorkshire 568(obverse die match), 572(reverse die match); SCBI 42-Southeastern Museums: 1636(reverse die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • SNEBORN ON EOFR
  • 1.12gm/17.50mm

 

 

York; SCBI 21-Yorkshire 580 and 581(die matches). See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 358, coins 394 and 395 for a possible die matches.

 

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