Beschreibung:

ANGLO-SAXON EDWARD CONFESSOR - CHESTER / LEOFWINE - EXPANDING CROSS PENNY 1050-1051 AD, light coinage. Obv: profile bust with sceptre and +EDPARD REX legend. Rev: expanding voided cross with annulet at centre and +LEOFPINEONLEGA legend with NL ligated for the moneyer Leofwine at Chester mint. 1.05 grams. Very fine, slightly double-struck, reverse a little better. Rare (only one other example in EMC, from different dies). Literature S. 1176; N. 820. Footnotes The mint abbreviation reads LEGA or LECA which, although potentially good readings for the mint at Leicester, there are very similar readings seen at Chester. The moneyer Leofwine is well represented on the Chester types but is not known at Leicester. The balance of probability suggests therefore that this is a Chester mint coin.