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Auction: 4026 - Ancient, English and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 213

Harold I (1035-40), jewel cross type, Penny, 0.89g., Norwich, Leofsige, diademed bust left, rev., cross of four ovals on two circles enclosing a pellet, leofsige on nor (N.802; S.1163), the flan slightly bowed, lightly double struck on obverse, otherwise very fine or better, very rare Estimate £ 400-500 Leofsige is hitherto unrecorded as a Saxon moneyer at Norwich. A moneyer Leofsige strikes at Northampton from Eadgar until the crvx type of Aethelred II, but the Northampton mint signature throughout this period is ham not nor

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