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ANGLO-SAXON COINS - EDWARD THE CONFESSOR - LINCOLN / ASFERTH - PACX/RADIATE SMALL CROSS MULE PENNY 1062-1065 AD BMC type i/type iv mule. Obv: profile bust left with sceptre before and +ÆDPARDRD REX. error legend. Rev: small cross with +ASFERÐONL.INCO legend with pellet above L for the moneyer Asferth (or Osferth) at Lincoln mint. 0.95 grams. Condition Near extremely fine, about as struck; small spilt at flan edge. Extremely rare. Provenance Found near Ormsby, Lincolnshire, UK, 2017. Published See Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference LIN-B9250E (this coin); see Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (forthcoming, this coin). Literature S. 1171/1173 mule; N. 816/813 mule; Mossop 27 and SCBI 18 (Copenhagen IV) 929 (same dies); see Seaby, Peter, The Sequence of Anglo-Saxon Coin Types, 1030-50, BNJ XXVIII, 1958, p.136 and pl.VII, 8 (same dies, ex Locket, lot 745). Footnotes The obverse die is unusual in repeating the last two letters of the king's name and this die is shared with two other coins recorded for this moneyer but reading OSFERÐ; mules, being coins struck from obverse and reverse dies that were not intended to be used together, are rare and have proved important in numismatics as they often help in determining chronology of types.