The Hammer Cross Coinage of

Edward the Confessor

 

1059-1062
BMC xi
Hildebrand G
Seaby # 1182
North # 828

 

Image Description Notes

 

 

  • Cut 1/2 Penny
  • ǷVL[ǷI ON BED]EFOR
  • Sovereign/Hammer Cross Mule
  • BMC ix, Hild. H(obv)/BMC xi, Hild. G(rev)
  • 0.66gm/19.60mm
  • S 1181(obv)/1182(rev)
  • N 0827(obv)/0828(rev)
  • EX: DNW Auction 12 December 2016, lot 2168; Found near Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire in 1997

 

 

Bedford; EMC 1997.0158(this coin); One other in the EMC/Sylloge data base from this mint but a different moneyer,Sylloge 30-American Collections: 0622; There are a total of 13 mules of these two types listed in the data base. F. Elmore-Jones exhibited a mule penny of this type at a British Numismatic Society meeting in November 1946 (BNJ 25, p.100)

 

 

  • Penny
  • LIO(F)ÐEGEN ON BEDEF
  • 1.29gm/19.90mm

 

 

Bedford; rare moneryer and rare type for moneyer

 

 

  • Penny
  • LIOFǷINE ON CENNT
  • Hammer Cross
  • 1.03gm/19.55mm
  • S 1182
  • N 0828
  • EX: CNG Electronic Auction 541(28 June 2023), lot 819; purchased by consignor from A. H. Baldwin November 1975

 

 

Canterbury; SCBI 2-Glasgow:1120(die match). Scarce mint/moneyer/type combination. Unusual reverse die with the first letter of the mint name a rounded version of the letter C that closely resembles a G.

 

 

  • Penny
  • GODǷINE ON CICEST
  • 1.30gm/19.30mm
  • EX: Stacks Auctions, June 1966

 

 

Chichester; SCBI 42-Southeastern: 1444 (possible die match); See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 349, coin 127 for a possible die match.

 

  • Penny
  • FROMA ON DOR
  • 1.21gm/19.63mm
  • From the Terence Maudlin Collection sold at DNW 159(5 June 2019), lot 304; bt. Jon Mann November 2013; Lord Grantley Collection III, Glendining Auction(22-3 March 1944), lot 1212
Derby; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 353, coin 166 for a possible die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • DVNINC ON HÆSTI
  • 1.33gm/18.90mm

 

 

Hastings; SCBI 1- Fitzwilliam 917 and 918; SCBI 17-Midland 443 and 444; SCBI 20-Mack 1248; SCBI 42-South Eastern Museums 1468-1470; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 378, coin 515 for a possible die match. Extra pellet on upper left reverse field.

 

 

  • Penny
  • EADRIC: O[N] HEREFO
  • 1.12gm/19.20mm

 

 

Hereford; no examples of this moneyer/mint/type combination in the EMC/Sylloge or BMC

 

 

  • Penny
  • ASL•A•C ON LIN[COLN]
  • 0.81gm/16.31mm
  • Found near Catterick, North Yorkshire, February 2014

 

 

Lincoln: EMC 2018.0293(this coin) SCBI 27-Lincolnshire: 739 and 740(reverse die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • Æ[L]FǷINE ON LV[ND]E:
  • Hammer Cross
  • BMC xi, Hild. G
  • EX: From the Baldwin's Vault Sale Part 1 sold in St. James Auction 71(12 April 2023), lot 4, part

 

 

London; SCBI-9-Ashmolean: 955(reverse die match); See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 414, coin 1031 for a possible die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • GODǷINE ON SCRO:
  • 1.30gm/20.18mm
  • EX Stack's Ancient and Foreign Auction(7-8 December 1994), lot 3203

 

 

Shrewsbury; SCBI 17 - Midland: 454; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 427, coin 1182 for a possible die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • CVLLINC ON STAFFO
  • 1.20gm/19.50mm
  • EX: St. James Auction 7(8 February 2008), lot 20

 

 

Stafford; SCBI 2-Glasgow:1130(possible die match); SCBI 20-Mack:1262(possible die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • DIORMAN ON STÆNIG
  • 1.11gm/19.00mm
  • EX: , Joseph R. Lasser Collection sold at CNG Triton XVIII(7 January 2015), lot 1727; Davissons(19 October 2009)

 

 

Steyning; SCBI 1-Fitzwilliam 928 and 929; SCBI-9-Ashmolean, 982 and 983; SCBI 11-Reading, 166; SCBI 20-Mack, 1263; SCBI 29-Merseyside, 798; SCBI 30-American, 636-8; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 430, coin 1213 for a possible die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • [GO]LDǷINE[ON ǷINCELE]
  • 0.31gm/12.13mm
  • Found between 1992 and 1994 near Winchcombe

 

 

Winchcombe; EMC 2012.0090(this coin); Dr. Allen at the Fitzwiilliam Coin Depratment atributes this to the Winchcombe mint. ; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 453, coin 1520 for a possible die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • SCVLAE ON EOFRǷI
  • 1.34gm/18.90mm

 

 

York; SCBI 21 Yorkshire-456 and 457; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 367, coin 366 for a possible die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • SNEBORN ON EOF
  • 1.30gm/19.00mm

 

 

York; SCBI 21-Yorkshire:458 and 459; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 367, coin 367 for a possible die match.

 

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