Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), PACX type, Penny, Hertford, Deorsige, drsiie on rfor, 0.92g/9h (Freeman 11, this specimen listed; N 813; S 1171). Small surface crack (north-south) down arm of cross, otherwise very fine and extremely rare of this mint (£700-900)

Provenance:
H. Montagu Collection, Part II, Sotheby Auction, 11-16 May 1896, lot 135 (part), where ascribed to Bedford
D. Griffiths Collection, DNW Auction 59, 7 October 2003, lot 613 [from Baldwin].

Sold with Elmore Jones ticket re-attributing the coin to Hertford