Halfpenny - Harold II Pax type, with sceptre

Harold II's reign lasted roughly nine months in 1066, making his coinage among the scarcest of any Anglo-Saxon king by simple arithmetic. The Pax type was his sole issue, struck at mints across England during that compressed window between his coronation in January and his death at Hastings in October. Halfpennies were produced by cutting pennies, but purpose-struck halves like this — if genuine — represent an exceptionally rare survival from a reign the Conqueror had every incentive to erase from the official record.