Auction Catalogue

14 & 15 March 2007

Starting at 1:30 PM

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Important British and World Coins, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1475

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15 March 2007

Hammer Price:
£300

Harold II (1066), Cut Halfpenny, Droitwich, Heathewi, he[adepi on] pic, 0.56g/12h (N 836; S 1186). Hairline striking crack at 11 o’clock, otherwise very fine, excessively rare of this mint (£200-300)

Possibly a die duplicate of the Grantley specimen (SNC February 1971, 1672). For further information see ‘The Coinage of Harold II’ by H.E. Pagan, in Studies in Late Anglo-Saxon Coinage, pp.177-205