The Braintree Hoard of Late Anglo-Saxon Pennies

Harold II (1066), PAX type with Sceptre [BMC I; N 836; S 1186], Penny, Norwich, Cenric, Gp A var., +harold [––]lo, rev. cinric o[ –––], 0.99g/8h (Bt 99, this coin; Pagan, NM p.194 [one example noted]; BMC –; SCBI NM 1086, same dies). A fragment, retaining the king’s portrait and name, fine and extremely rare £120-£150

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

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The obverse of this coin displays two of the defining characteristics of Pagan’s group A; long fillet ties, and the extended ethnic ‘[ANG]LO’. However obverse dies of this type ‘almost invariably have the pellet at the centre of the crown positioned just to the right of the cross at the beginning of the legend’. Here it is placed directly below the cross, as is normally the case on the group B dies.