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Auction: 1011 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins, Commemorative Medals & Numismatic Books
Lot: 180

Edward the Confessor, Penny, 0.75g, radiate type, Thetford, Wulfric, radiate bust left, rev. +þvlfric on Ðiodfo, cross pattée within inner circle (N.816; S.1173), slight crimping, porous surfaces, rare moneyer for Thetford, nearly very fine Estimate £ 200-250 Wulfric is not recorded for this mint in SCBI vols 1-54. Freeman lists a single coin of this moneyer for Thetford under Edward the Confessor. provenance Spink Numismatic Circular, December 2001, HS0941 Eaglen 1998, lot 1542 Baldwin, August 1991 GV Doubleday, Glendining, 6 October 1987, lot 507 - with Doubleday ticket Duke of Argyll, collection bought by Spink, 1949 Grantley III, 22-23 March 1944, lot 1188c

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