Lot 1401

Description

Edward the Confessor I, (1042-1066), silver penny, pointed helmet type, York Mint, moneyer Arngrim, (1.32 g), obv. bust right bearded, drapery with three horizontal folds to edge of flan, wearing pointed helmet with four large horizontal pellets at base, arma and hand showing, sceptre tipped with a cross pomm?e before, dividing legend +ED_RDE: around begins at 12 o'clock / rev. short cross voided within inner circle (12 mm), annulet in second quarter, each limb terminating in three crescents, in centre an annulet, legend +ARNGRIM ON EOFRPIC around, (S.1179, N.825, BMC vii). Toned, very fine.

Ex S.J.Green Collection.
Previously CNG Auction 114 Lot # 1296 (14 May 2020). Also James and Martha Robertson collection, Cederlind BBS 134 Lot 338 (29 March 2005), Cederlind BBS 123 Lot 272 (2 November 2001). With collector's tickets.