Short Cross coins, Winchester, Gocelm, gocelm · on · winc·, extra drapery, low sceptre, prominent cheeks defined by pellets, dies 9/9, 1.20g/6h (SCBI 188); 1a2, Clement, clement · on · winc, last n seriffed, dies 8/8, 1.13g/8h (SCBI 184); 1a5, Adam, adam · on · wince, 0.87g/10h (SCBI 180) [3]. First two pierced and last clipped, otherwise fine or better (£80-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Short Cross Coins formed by the late Professor Jeffrey P. Mass.

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Provenance:
M.R. Allen Collection, additionally:
First J.D. Brand Collection, F. Elmore Jones Collection, Glendining Auction, 13 April 1983, lot 1194 (part).

The obv. die of the first coin was also used by Rodbert at both Winchester and Wilton (see ‘The Emergency Mint of Wilton in 1180’, by J.D. Brand and F. Elmore Jones, BNJ 35 [1966], pp.116-1, where this coin is illustrated as pl.xv, 1)