The Collection of Anglo-Saxon and Earlier Hammered Coins formed by the late Captain 'Peter' Arnot

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Edward the Confessor, Pointed Helmet and Hammer Cross mule, Leofwold, Winchester, LiOFPOLD ON PINEE, 1.29 gms (same obverse die as Ryan 858 and same reverse die as SCBI Ashmolean 1001-2). Very fine and excessively rare (£1,000-1,500)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Anglo-Saxon and Earlier Hammered Coins formed by the late Captain 'Peter' Arnot.

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Ex Glendining’s, 1 July1965 (857) amd Spink Coin Auctions 6 (409, the footnote stating ‘the only other specimen of this mule known to the cataloguer is the specimen formerly in the Ryan Collection.” The moneyer is otherwise unknown at Winchester