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Penny - Edward Transitional Pyramids type
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1065-1066 |
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| Currency | Penny (924-1158) |
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| Obverse description | Facing crowned bust of King Edward the Confessor, rendered in the flat, stylised Anglo-Saxon hammered tradition. The king wears a radiate or jewelled crown and is depicted with drapery gathered and joined at the breast by an annulet. A sceptre is held in the right hand, visible to the left of the effigy. The surrounding legend in Old English minuscule reads EADǷARD REX, enclosed within a beaded inner circle typical of late Anglo-Saxon coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Struck in the final months of Edward the Confessor's reign, this type bridges two distinct coinage phases and was produced across a network of licensed moneyers operating under tight royal control. Edward died in January 1066, making any coin from this brief type a product of a kingdom already fracturing — Harold Godwinson was crowned the same day Edward was buried, and within ten months the entire Anglo-Saxon monetary infrastructure would be absorbed into Norman administration.
The Pyramids type takes its name from the scepter finials in the design, a detail significant enough to distinguish it from the preceding Hammer Cross issue in the Spink and North references.