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Auction: 1011 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins, Commemorative Medals & Numismatic Books
Lot: 177

Edward the Confessor, Penny, 0.88g, radiate type, Leicester, Blacaman, radiate bust left, rev. +blacaman o leh, cross pattée within inner circle (N.816; S.1173), flan cracks, toned, nearly very fine, very rare Estimate £ 500-600 Blacaman is a moneyer associated with the coins of Nottingham and Derby. This is the only example for him working at Leicester, a mint recorded for just six coins for this issue. This coin was wrongly attributed to Chester in the Grantley sale but correctly attributed to Leicester in SCBI 20 (Mack) and thereafter. provenance Spink Numismatic Circular, August 2005, HS 2153 Spink Numismatic Circular, May 1984, item 2792 Mack Collection- SCBI 20/1128 Duke of Argyll, collection bought by Spink, 1949 Grantley III, Glendining, 22 March 1944, lot 1185b

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