The Braintree Hoard of Late Anglo-Saxon Pennies

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Radiate type [BMC I; BEH A; N 816; S 1173], Penny, Lincoln, Godric, +edperd rex a, rev. +godric on linco, 1.07g/9h (Bt 1, this coin; Freeman 162; Mossop pl. lxviii, 14 [Bb]; BMC 666). Minute perforation in legend, otherwise very fine £150-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Braintree Hoard of Late Anglo-Saxon Pennies.

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Godric is one of the most prolific and longest-serving moneyers of Edward’s reign producing coins of every type except Pyramids [Freeman p.110]. An outlier in the structure of the hoard, this specimen was over twenty years old when the coins were buried.