England (1046-48) penny S-1174
This specimen was lot 1660 in Künker Auction 425 (Osnabrück, July 2025), where it sold for €460 (about US$652 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"EUROPÄISCHE MÜNZEN UND MEDAILLEN · ENGLAND, Edward the Confessor, 1042-1066. Penny, um 1046-1048, Winchester. Trefoil-quadrilateral type. Münzmeister IFINC (Lifinc). Brustbild l. mit Zepter//Kurzes Doppelfadenkreuz mit je drei Kugeln in den Winkeln und Quadrat im Zentrum. Min. gewellt, vorzüglich. (kingdom of England, Edward the Confessor, 1042-1066, undated penny, circa 1046-48, Winchester mint. Trefoil-quadrilateral type, moneyer Lifinc. obverse: bust left with scepter; reverse: short voided cross cantonned with four groups of three pellets, a quadrilateral at the center. Slightly wavy, extremely fine.)"
The reign of Edward the Confessor saw the use of several designs of the silver penny as the moneyers tried to stay ahead of the counterfeiters. This one is called the "Trefoil-quadrilateral type" because of the triple pellets around the central quadrilateral. Winchester was not the only mint.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.09 g, silver, 18 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: North 817; Seaby 1174.
- Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
- Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 425: Gold coins from the Medieval and Modern Times, from the Mohr family collection, e.g. | Silver coins, e.g. highlights of medallic art | German coins after 1871, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2025.
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