The Pyramids Coinage of

Edward the Confessor

 

1065-1066
BMC xv
Hildebrand I
Seaby # 1184
North # 831

 

Image Description Notes

 

 

  • Penny
  • LCOFNOÐ ON LE•ICS•
  • 1.36gm/18.30mm
  • EX: William C. Boyd sold at Baldwin's Auction 42(26 September 2005), lot 874, bought Spink 1899

 

 

Chester: SCBI 5 Grosvenor-385(die match), 384 obverse, 389 reverse.

 

 

  • Penny
  • OVTTI O LINCOLNE:
  • 1.36gm/18.71mm
  • 1.13

 

 

Lincoln; SCBI 27-Lincolnshire: 791(die match); moneyer apparently only of Lincolon and of this reign, unusual spelling of his name.

 

 

  • Penny
  • ÆLFǷI OXENFORDI
  • 1.32gm/19.07mm

 

 

Oxford; SCBI-20 Mack: 1326(die match)
  • Penny
  • GODRIC ON SNDǷC
  • Pyramids
  • 1.11gm/18.23mm
  • Found 2020/2021 near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Sandwich; EMC 2022.0014(this coin), Rare type for the mint.

 

 

  • Penny
  • GODǷINE ON SROBB
  • 1.32gm/18.80mm
  • EX: CNG Triton VIII(12 January 2005), Lot: 1763

 

 

Shrewsbury; SCBI 9-Ashmolean 1: 1076; SCBI 11-Reading: 178; SCBI 48-Northern Museums; 1061(die matches to all three of these coins)

 

 

  • Penny
  • LEOFRIC [ON S]TANF
  • 1.00gm/19.06mm
  • EX: A. F. Brock Auction 22 May 2013, lot 495(part of)

 

 

Stamford; SCBI 27-Lincolnshire: 1481(die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • FOLFǷINE [ON SV]Ð:
  • Pyramids
  • 1.12gm/18.49mm
  • From The Braintree Hoard of Late Anglo-Saxon Pennies sold at Noonans Auction 290(21 February 2024), lot 1029; Braintree Hoard discovered February 2019 near Braintree, Essex

 

 

Sudbury; Mint unrecorded for this type until this hoard was discovered. Four coins from the mint were in the hoard, two cut halfs and two complete coins, one of which is this coin. All four coins were struck from the same dies.

 

 

  • Penny
  • ALFǷOLD ON ǷILTV
  • 1.29gm/18.70mm
  • EX: CNG Electronic Auction 59(26 February 2003), lot 204; W. J. Conte Collection; Corringham Hoard, Lincolnshire, found 1994(this hoard contained 100 coins 46 of which were of the Pyramid type and only one was from Wilton, this coin).

 

 

Wilton; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 443, coin 1362 for a possible die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • LEOFǷ•OLD ON ǷCI
  • 1.11gm/18.05mm
  • EX: Vecchi(September 1972)

 

 

Winchester; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 452, coin 1505 for a possible die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • OÐBORN ON EOFRR
  • 1.09gm/19.20mm

 

 

York; SCBI 21-Yorkshire:646 & 647, SCBI 29-Merseyside:833, SCBI 42-Southeastern:1678. See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 370, coin 415 for a possible die match. Moneyer known only for Lincoln and York

 

 

  • Penny
  • SǷEARTCOL ON EO•
  • 1.37gm/18.70mm
  • EX: Spink NC May 1985 #3057; R.P. Mack; R. C. Locket Part I sold at Glendinning's Auctions(6 June 1955), lot 863( part of); Sir John Evans; Bishophill Find(Number 1), 1882

 

 

York; SCBI 20 - Mack: 1335(this coin). See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 370, coin 424 for a possible die match.

 

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