Great Britain Silver & Bronze
Lot 2472 SESSION 11 (7.30PM WEDNESDAY 10TH APRIL) Great Britain Silver & Bronze
Estimate $250
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SOLD $180
HENRY II, (1154-1189), silver penny, cross and crosslets type, class C2, Bristol Mint, moneyer Eilaf, (1.14 g), obv. crowned bust (coarser and larger) facing wearing armour and mantle with sceptre in right hand, mantle indicated by sweeping lines, pellets at collar; no pellets at wrist or trefoil on mantle, rev. large cross potent with small cross potent in each angle, in centre a small cross in saltire, (S.1339, N.957). Toned, nearly very fine and rare.
Ex S. J. Green Collection. With tickets.
Previously Spink Auction 16020, lot 417. The Lord Stewartby Collection Part II. F.Elmore Jones Glendining 1983, lot 454b.
Not recorded in BMC, a very rare mint, possibly unique.
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