The Pyramids Coinage of

Edward the Confessor

 

1065-1066
BMC xv
Hildebrand I
Seaby # 1184
North # 831

 

Image Description Notes

 

 

  • Penny
  • LCOFNOÐ ON LE•ICS•
  • 1.36gm/18.30mm
  • EX: William C. Boyd sold at Baldwin's Auction 42(26 September 2005), lot 874, bought Spink 1899

 

 

Chester: SCBI 5 Grosvenor-385(die match), 384 obverse, 389 reverse.

 

 

  • Penny
  • OVTTI O LINCOLNE:
  • 1.36gm/18.71mm
  • 1.13

 

 

Lincoln; SCBI 27-Lincolnshire: 791(die match); moneyer apparently only of Lincolon and of this reign, unusual spelling of his name.

 

 

  • Penny
  • ÆLFǷI OXENFORDI
  • 1.32gm/19.07mm

 

 

Oxford; SCBI-20 Mack: 1326(die match)
  • Penny
  • GODRIC ON SNDǷC
  • Pyramids
  • 1.11gm/18.23mm
  • Found 2020/2021 near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Sandwich; EMC 2022.0014(this coin), Rare type for the mint.

 

 

  • Penny
  • GODǷINE ON SROBB
  • 1.32gm/18.80mm
  • EX: CNG Triton VIII(12 January 2005), Lot: 1763

 

 

Shrewsbury; SCBI 9-Ashmolean 1: 1076; SCBI 11-Reading: 178; SCBI 48-Northern Museums; 1061(die matches to all three of these coins)

 

 

  • Penny
  • LEOFRIC [ON S]TANF
  • 1.00gm/19.06mm
  • EX: A. F. Brock Auction 22 May 2013, lot 495(part of)

 

 

Stamford; SCBI 27-Lincolnshire: 1481(die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • ALFǷOLD ON ǷILTV
  • 1.29gm/18.70mm
  • EX: CNG Electronic Auction 59(26 February 2003), lot 204; W. J. Conte Collection; Corringham Hoard, Lincolnshire, found 1994(this hoard contained 100 coins 46 of which were of the Pyramid type and only one was from Wilton, this coin).

 

 

Wilton; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 443, coin 1362 for a possible die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • LEOFǷ•OLD ON ǷCI
  • 1.11gm/18.05mm
  • EX: Vecchi(September 1972)

 

 

Winchester; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 452, coin 1505 for a possible die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • OÐBORN ON EOFRR
  • 1.09gm/19.20mm

 

 

York; SCBI 21-Yorkshire:646 & 647, SCBI 29-Merseyside:833, SCBI 42-Southeastern:1678. See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 370, coin 415 for a possible die match. Moneyer known only for Lincoln and York

 

 

  • Penny
  • SǷEARTCOL ON EO•
  • 1.37gm/18.70mm
  • EX: Spink NC May 1985 #3057; R.P. Mack; R. C. Locket Part I sold at Glendinning's Auctions(6 June 1955), lot 863( part of); Sir John Evans; Bishophill Find(Number 1), 1882

 

 

York; SCBI 20 - Mack: 1335(this coin). See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 370, coin 424 for a possible die match.

 

Edward the Confessor Links

Pacx | Radiate | Trefoil Quadrilaterial | Small Flan | Expanding Cross | Pointed Helmet | Sovereign | Hammer Cross | Facing Bust | Pyramids

Anglo Saxon Links

Early Anglo Saxon | Northumbria and the Archbishops of York | Canterbury | Mercia | East Anglia | Wessex | Viking Invaders | Æthelred II | Cnut | Harold I | Harthacnut | Edward The Confessor | Harold II

Home | Celtic | Anglo-Saxon | Norman | Plantagenet | Lancaster | York | Tudor | Stuart | Library | Links
Top of Page
Optimized for Netscape.
Copyright © 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015, 2021 Timothy D. Cook. All rights reserved.

Comments and questions
please contact me.