| Spink > Auction 24004 | Auction date: 4 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 40 Price realized: 1,800 GBP (Approx. 2,262 USD / 2,101 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: NGC MS63 | *Top Pop* | Edward 'the Confessor' (1042-1066), Light, "Expanding Cross" Type, Penny, 1050-1053, Oxford, Swetman, + EDPE-RD REX, diademed and draped bust left, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + SPETMAN ON OXENE, NE ligate expanding cross, annulet at centre, 1.68g [25.7grns], 12h (Charles Lewis Stainer [1904], 'Oxford Silver Pennies' (925-1272), pp. 49-50 not listed; FEJ 654 this coin; SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 853 = Lockett I, 817; SCBI 54 [Stockholm], 1141; North 820; BMC V; Spink 1176), minor peripheral striking softness, otherwise rich cabinet tone, extremely fine or near so, extremely rare, in NGC holder, graded MS63 (Cert. #6320964-001) [*Single Finest Certified*]. Provenance, F Elmore-Jones, Part I, Glendining, 12-13 May 1971, lot 654 - "very fine and very rare" - £52, , , https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/6320964-001/63/, Estimate: £1000 - £1200 |  |
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| Spink > Auction 23005 | Auction date: 12 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 295 Price realized: 480 GBP (Approx. 603 USD / 559 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Light Coinage, 'Expanding Cross' Type, Penny, 1050-1053, Norwich, Thorfrithr, + EDPERD REX, diademed and draped bust left, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + ÐYRFFRD ON NORÐP. voided short cross with expanding limbs joined at base by two circles, 1.15g [17.75grns], 1h (Hildebrand -, cf. 609 [Type E]; Freeman 145; SCBI 42 [South Eastern], 1226 [Walbrook 'City Hoard'] same dies; North 823; BMC V; Spink 1177), softness of strike to head, otherwise toned, fine to very fine. Provenance, T Mathews, by private treaty, 1985 - £120, Estimate: £180 - £240 |  |
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| Spink > Auction 23005 | Auction date: 12 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 292 Price realized: 520 GBP (Approx. 653 USD / 606 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), (3) 'Small Flan' Type, Penny, 1048-1050, Canterbury, Brunman, + [EDPE-]RD R: diademed and draped bust left, rev. + BRVNIIN ON CEN, voided short cross, 0.71g [10.96grns], 11h (Hild. B; SCBI 26 [East Anglia], 1278; Freeman 54; North 818; BMC II; Spink 1175), double-struck with ragged edges, a green haze to toned fields, otherwise struck details about very fine, scarce; Canterbury, Leofwine, + EDPE-RD RE, diademed and draped bust left, rev. + LEOFPINE ON CEN, voided short cross, 1.04g [16.05grns], 10h (Hild. B; SCBI 2 [Hunterian], 1030 same dies; EMC 1996.0246 [Barham] same dies; Freeman 114; North 818; BMC II; Spink 1175), crimped and toned, a bolder fine; London, Ælfwig, + EDPR-D REX, diademed and draped bust left, rev. + ÆLFP ON LVND: voided short cross, 0.86g [13.27grns], 10h (Hild. B; SCBI -; Freeman 24; North 818; BMC II; Spink 1175), delamination and flan crack from 6 o'clock to centre of reverse, traces of porosity, otherwise lightly toned, struck details very fine (3). Provenance, i) T Mathews, by private treaty, 1984 - £125, ii) T Mathews, by private treaty, 1983 - £95, iii) T Mathews, by private treaty, 1985 - £100, Estimate: £240 - £300 |  |
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| Spink > Auction 392 | Auction date: 14 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 133 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Heavy Coinage, 'Expanding Cross' Penny, 1050-1053, Gloucester, Godric, + EDPE•RD REX: diademed and draped bust left, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + GODRIC ON GLEPECE: short cross voided with expanding limbs joined at the base by two circles, 1.68g [25.93grns], 9h, 17.91mm. x 1.52mm. diameter / thickness (SCBI 19 [Bristol], 389 same dies; North 823; BMC V; Spink 1177), an inconsequential depression to centre of flan, otherwise a superbly uniform and well struck-up example of this ever popular and instantly recognisable type, a most wholesome extremely fine, a scarce provincial mint in and extremely rare, only two examples traced on EMC/SCBI, both housed in the Bristol and Gloucester Museums Provenance Found in Froxfield and Steep District, East Hampshire, Wednesday 20 September 2023 ~ Recorded with the Hampshire Cultural Trust, ref. PAS HAMP-AE9839 ~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, ref. EMC 2024.00?? Estimate: 2400 - 3000 USD |  |
Match 4:
| Spink > Auction 23005 | Auction date: 12 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 301 Price realized: 2,600 GBP (Approx. 3,266 USD / 3,028 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Hammer Cross' Type, Penny, 1059-1062, Bath, Godric, + EADPAR-RD RE, crowned, draped and bearded bust right, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + GODRIC ON BAÐEN: voided short cross with each limb terminating in incurved segment of circle, 1.33g [20.53grns], 3h (Hildebrand - [Type G]; Freeman 28; SCBI 24 [West Country], 707-708 same dies; SCBI 42 [South Eastern ~ Sedlescombe Hoard], 1418 same dies; Lockett I, 842a same dies; cf. H A Parsons [BNJ, 1921], p. 40; North 828; BMC XI; Spink 1182), legends doubled with further die clashing, otherwise lightly toned, and of good metal, the attribution and pedigree certain, with only thirteen coins of this type known to Freeman for Bath (10 of Osmær; 3 of Godric) of which all of the latter are in Museums, presumed UNIQUE to commerce thus. Provenance, Warwick & Warwick 748, 20 August 2014, lot 354 - £343, with accompanying note of Victorian-era stationery, stating:, "One of the Saxon Coins found in a metal vessel at Sedlescombe [near] Battle, which probably were part of Harolds military chest [exchequer] for the defence of Hastings against William the Conqueror - They belonged to the reign of Edward the Confessor. They probably failed to arrive before the battle and were hastily hidden in the panic & flight which followed Harold's death.", Sedlescombe Hoard (1876), deposited, c. 1066, ~ Found by a labourer in a small iron pot whilst digging a drain in a meadow near the village of Battle on 26 August 1876. G S Hill, writing in the Numismatic Chronicle (1879, pp. 154-156), stated: "Within [much oxidised pot] was part of a leather bag, containing a pint of small old coins, silver pennies of four different sorts, but all of Edward the Confessor, who reigned A.D. 1042 to 1066. The manor in which they were found is said to have belonged to Earl Godwin, father of King Harold II. Some of the coins were very brittle and broken." Whilst many were dispersed before Treasure Trove stepped in, it is believed as many as 3,000 coins originally complemented the hoard. The local antiquarian Major Boyce Harvey Combe FSA exhibited four coins at the meeting of Society of Antiquaries in June 1877. , , Anthony Freeman noted: The recorded moneyers are Aegelmær, Eorlewine, Godric, Osmær and Wædel. This material enables a clear pattern to be identified of Bath as a two-moneyer mint, its needs met initially by Ægelmaer and Waedel (both of whom worked prior to Edward's accession), and their respective successors Osmær and Godric. Osmaer works into the post-Conquest period, but Godric is succeeded by Eorlewine in the Hammer Cross type. The absence of coins from the Pyramid type and from Harold II's reign marks a change in the mint's character. Thereafter minting appears to be erratic. Osmær continues at work but coins erratically (BMC types I, V and VIII in William's I reign), being joined in BMC III by Brungar and in BMC VIII by Ægelmær and possibly Godesbrand. , , The stability of size and degree of continuity among moneyers are impressive. There are no single-type moneyers and the mint appears free from whatever factors may have determined the changes in moneyer complement at neighbouring mints, such as Gloucester or Bristol. Bath's moneyers appear to pursue their career exclusively in the service of the mint, and the names of Ægelmaer, Eorlewine, Osmær and Wædel are unique in Edward's reign to Bath; except in so far as it must conform broadly to the requirements of minting policy, the Bath mint appears to function in complete isolation. Estimate: £400 - £600 |  |
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| Spink > Auction 23005 | Auction date: 12 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 306 Price realized: 850 GBP (Approx. 1,068 USD / 990 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Hammer Cross' Type, Pennies, 1059-1062, Oxford, Ælfwig (2), + EADPARD REX, crowned, draped and bearded bust right, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + ÆLFPI : ON OXENEXFO, NE ligate, voided short cross with each limb terminating in incurved segment of circle, 1.28g [19.75grns], 9h (Hildebrand - [Type G]; SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 966 same dies), slightly warped flan, otherwise details clear and well struck throughout, pleasantly cabinet toned with underlying lustre, a bolder very fine; another, similar, rev. + ÆLPI : ON OXENEX• NE ligate, as before, 1.33g [20.53grns], 7h (Freeman 38; Chancton Hoard [NumChron, 1867], p. 113; SCBI 2 [Hunterian], 1129 same reverse die ['Æthelwig']; North 828; BMC XI [Coll. no. 1125]; Spink 1182), some weakness to strike, otherwise toned with hints of lustre, very fine or near so, an interesting pair! (2). Provenance, i) T Mathews, by private treaty, 1992 - £250, ii) T Mathews, by private treaty, 1985 - £175, Estimate: £400 - £500 |  |
