Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Penny, Expanding Cross type [Heavy issue], Bedford, Swet, spot on bedefor, 1.66g/12h (BMC 21 and Bagshawe 11480, same dies; Freeman 55; N 823; S 1177). Some weakness in margins, otherwise very fine and extremely rare; perhaps only three specimens known £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Terence Maudlin Collection of English Hammered Pennies.

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Provenance: E.W. Rashleigh Collection, Sotheby Auction, 21 June-1 July 1909, lot 314 (part); P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton Collection, Part II, Sotheby Auction, 20-4 November 1916, lot 1124 (part); St James’s Auction 5, 27 September 2006, lot 74; Spink Auction 225, 22-3 September 2014, lot 208; Mark Rasmussen FPL 28, Spring 2016 (20)