| Spink > Auction 24004 | Auction date: 4 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 45 Price realized: 480 GBP (Approx. 603 USD / 560 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: (x) Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), 'Pyramids' Type, Penny, 1065-1066, Stafford, Godwine, EADPARD RE, bust right, bearded and crowned, trefoil of pellets on neck, two horizontal folds and three vertical pellets to drapery to edge of flan, in front a trefoil tipped sceptre, rev. + GODPINE ON STIE, short cross voided, a pyramid springing from the inner circle and terminating in a pellet within inner circle, 1.30g [20.1grns], 9h (Hildebrand -; MEC 8 [Fitzwilliam], 2324 same dies; SCBI 9 [Oxford Part I], 1079 same dies but attributed to Steyning; SCBI 18 [Copenhagen Part IV], 1182 same dies; SCBI 20 [Mack], 1328 same dies; SCBI 30 [American], 655 no die link; SCBI 42 [South Eastern Museums], 1662, 1663, 1664, 1665, 1666, 1667, 1668 all same dies; North 831; BMC XV [1218 - same dies but attributed to Steyning]; Spink 1184), obverse double-struck, otherwise toned, very fine, with an excellent 18th Century pedigree. Provenance, The Steve J Green Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins [with his tickets and envelope], Noble Numismatics 121, 31 July 2019, lot 1827 - AUD1,000 AUD, Shelley Family Collection, Oulton (Staffordshire) Hoard, found 3 March 1795, , , Written by the vendor on the BNS Research Blog: "Die duplicate of SCBI 9, 1079 (mint signature given as STIE) where it is wrongly attributed to Steyning. There are another 10 coins in the SCBI where they are attributed to Stafford and which also appear to be die duplicates – MEC 8, 2324 (mint signature incorrectly given as STÆ), SCBI 18, 1182 (Copenhagen - mint signature not provided, it was obtained from an auction in 1901), SCBI 20, 1328 (STIE and believed to be from Oulton), and SCBI 42, 1662-1668 (all incorrectly STÆ and from 19th and early 20th Century collections), nos. 1664 and 1667 have the same blurred obverse strike). SCBI 30, 655 is the only example to be from different dies. It seems likely that most of these coins again derive from the Oulton hoard." , , The original report of the Oulton find in the Staffordshire Advertiser (7 March 1795): "Extract of a letter from Stone, March 3rd. 'As the gardener of Mr. Shelley of Oulton, near this place, was digging in his Master's orchard, he found a gold ring, and upwards of a thousand small pieces of silver coin, most of which were perfect; and on examination proved to be the coin of St. Edward the Confessor, one of our Saxon kings, who reigned upwards of 700 years ago. It could not be discovered in what they had been kept, as the covering, whatever it might have been, had mouldered into dust." Estimate: £400 - £600 |  |
