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21–23 September 2016

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Lot

№ 1090

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22 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£420

Harold II (1066), Cut Halfpenny, PAX type, London, Osmund, o[——] lvndei, 0.86g/2h (Pagan, NM p.192; N 836; S 1186). Very fine and extremely rare £300-360

Provenance: L.A. Lawrence Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction, 14 March 1951, lot 254 (part); SNC November 1982 (8161); J. Birch Collection, DNW Auction 133, 12 November 2015, lot 56.

This coin is mentioned by Pagan as the second known specimen for the moneyer (albeit with an uncertain reading)