Penny - Edward Transitional Pyramids type

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.