The Expanding Cross Coinage of

Edward the Confessor

Light Issue

1050-1053
BMC v
Hildebrand E
Seaby # 1176
North # 822

Image	Description	Notes
	Penny GODRIC ON LINCO: Bust C, Jewel Cross style portrait 0.95gm/17.90mm	Lincoln
	Penny BRVNINC ON LVND Bust A BMC v, Hild E 1.34gm/20.00mm	London
	Penny SIǷAR[D ON N]IPEPOR Bust ? 0.85gm/18.21mm EX: John Hulett Collection part XX sold at DNW 185(1 December 2020), lot 8(bt Spink September 2010); W. N. Clarke(this is according to the Hulett's ticket, this coin was not in any of the sales of this collection); P. Finn FPL 11(November 1997), 88; P. Finn FPL 1(May 1994), 29; found near Bury St. Edmunds 1993	Newport; EMC 1993.5003(this coin). See BNJ 63(1993), pages 125-126 for a review of the coins of this mint. This was the seventh known coin from this mint. There is uncertainty the coin sold in the Williams collection is from this mint.

Heavy Issue

1050-1053
BMC vb
Hildebrand E
Seaby # 1177
North # 823

Image	Description	Notes
	Penny MORCEREE ON EDMUN Bust A 1.45gm/20.73mm EX: Mark Rasmussen; DNW Auction 134(7 & 8-12-15), lot 821(unsold); DNW 12(21-3-1995), lot289(sold for £120); H.A.Parsons Collection Part 1, Sothebys(28 Oct-1 Nov 1929),lot 197; P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton Collection Part 1, Sothebys(7-21 Nov 1913), lot599(part)	Bury St.Edmunds; SCBI 18-Copenhagen: 801(similar); See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 356, coin 203 for a probable die match. Eaglen 2, dies Aa, 5, this coin; Eaglen states there are less than thirty coins of this mint from the reign to survive. Freeman 5.
	Penny [Æ]LǷINE ON CICESTR Bust D 1.52gm/19.00mm	Chichester; SCBI 9 - Ashmolean: 827(die match; SCBI 42-Southeastern: 1208( die match); See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 48, probable obverse die match to coin 107 and probably reverse die match to coin 108.
	Penny CINSTAN ON DOF• Bust E 1.49gm/17.99mm	Dover; SCBI 20-Mack:1178(die match); SCBI 42-Southeastern:1244. Moneyer apparently only of this mint and scarce
	Penny OÐGRIM ON LINCOL•E: Bust D 1.60gm/20.00mm From the Michael Joffre Collection sold at CNG Electronic Auction 345(25 February 2015), lot 683	Lincoln; SCBI 27-Lincolnshire: 700(probable obverse die match)
	Penny BRICSIE ON LVNDENE Bust A 1.60gm/19.90mm EX: CNG Electronic Auction 190(25 June 2008), lot 260	London; during this reign this moneyer only of this mint and only of this type; SCBI 10 Ulster Museum. Belfast- : 1180- 686(probable die match); SCBI 20 - Mack: 1180(reverse die match). The Mack coin is a light coinage issue. The coin on this website is a heavy coinage issue. The reverse die is either a light or heavy coinage issue die. During this reign this moneyer only of this mint and only of this type.
	Penny LEOFSI ON LVNDENE Bust D 1.59gm/20.52mm EX: L.A. Lawrence(Glendinings, 17 May 1950), lot 276 (Probably from the Emore-Jones Collection)	London
	Penny BRVN•ǷINE ON ǷA Bust D 1.60gm/20.15mm EX: Heritage World and Ancient Coins Select Auction 232337(14 September 2023), lot 62210	Wallingford; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 436, coin 1275 for a probable die match
	Cut 1/2 Penny LYFINC ON Ƿ[AERINCPIC] Bust D 0.66gm/17.00mm Found in March 2011 in Long Newnton, Tetbury, Gloucestershire	Warwick; SCBI 17 - Midland: 398(die match); EMC:2018-0291(this coin)

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