On July 3, London saleroom Dix Noonan Webb will offer the second part of The North Yorkshire Moors collection – a group of British coins formed by the American collector Marvin Lessen. The first sale made more than £300,000 in April 2018.
The second tranche spans the half-millennium between Eadgar’s coinage reform in 972/3 – when mint names started to accompany those of moneyers on coins – and the death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Coins from over 50 different mint-towns from the period are represented in the catalogue. Included in the 526-lot sale is this penny dating from the reign of Edward the Martyr (975-978) estimated at £4000-5000.