Great Britain Silver & Bronze Coins

Sale 134    20–24 Nov 2023   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 1406    SESSION 7 (9.30AM WEDNESDAY 22ND NOV)    Great Britain Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $1,250
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,000

HENRY I, (1087-1100), silver penny, pellets in quatrefoil type, London Mint, moneyer uncertain (possibly Godwine), (1.36 g), obv. crowned facing bust holding sceptre to left, star in field to right, within beaded semi- circle, +HENRICVS R around begins at 7 o'clock, rev. quatrefoil, star at centre, pellets in limbs, lis extending into angles, around [ ]E:ONLVN[.] (represents a quatrefoil of pellets), (S.1275, N.870, BMC xiv). Toned, areas of striking weakness as usual for this issue, reverse struck off centre, attractive portrait, good very fine and scarce.

Ex S.J.Green Collection.
Previously Spink Auction 15004 Lot # 551 (25 March 2015). With collector's tickets.
Collector's note: "Without any sign of double striking, the stop before the mint signature appears to be a quatrefoil of pellets in cross formation, this is quite unheard of."

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