Featured Edward the Confessor / Wulfwine in London

Edward the Confessor small flan type of Frome. BRIHE or BRINE ON FRO. The moneyer is Brihtwine, but the flan is too small to accommodate anything other than a severely truncated reading. Frome was a royal manor in Saxon times and is a very rare mint with around a dozen coins known spread across a few reigns, most of which are in museums. This coin ex W J Conte, CNG 58 lot 1876 and Lord Stewartby(I) lot 283. When acquired by Conte from Baldwin in 1994 this coin was unique, but a second example from the same dies was dug up in 1995.

 

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