British Coins

Kings of All England, Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Penny, Expanding Cross type, Malmesbury, Brihtwi, brihtpi on malme:, 1.77g/9h (Freeman 15; N 823; S 1177). About extremely fine and toned, excessively rare £800-1,000

Provenance: J. Shirley-Fox Collection; S.R. Naish Collection; F. Elmore Jones Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 May 1971, lot 576 [from Seaby November 1945].

Apart from this specimen, only three others are listed by Freeman: Montagu, part II, lot 140 (part), State Arts Collection, Dresden and a cut halfpenny in the Æthelstan Museum, Malmesbury (SCBI 24, 688)