Description
Edward the Confessor (1042-66), Penny, Facing bust/small cross type (c.1062-65), Romney mint, moneyer Wulmaer, crowned bearded and draped bust facing, pellets below chin in drapery, legend commences EΛDÞΛRD REX ΛNG. Rev, small cross pattée inside linear circle, reads +PVLMÆR ON RVME, 17mm, 0.94g (S.1183; N.830; BMC XIII; SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 1039-40; SCBI 20 [Mack], 1294). Edge chip, some cracks, the metal stable, otherwise very fine. An academic example, a rarer and highly collectible mint town.
Ex Baldwin’s basement, with two supporting tickets