Short Cross coins, Ia1/Ia2, Wilton, Rodbert, rodbert · on · wil: (over win), obv. square es, prominent cheekbones defined by pellets, double drapery, low angled sceptre, dies 5/5, 1.31g/5h (SCBI 166). Nearly very fine, very rare (£300-350)

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:
J.D. Brand Collection
F. Elmore Jones Collection, Glendining Auction, 13 April 1983, lot 1194
SCMB August 1983 (E 511)
bt 1989.

The alteration of the rev. die is attributed to the removal of the dies from Winchester to Wilton following the fire of 1180 which destroyed the Winchester mint (see ‘The Emergency Mint of Wilton in 1180’, by J.D. Brand and F. Elmore Jones, BNJ 35 [1966], pp.116-19, where this coin is illustrated as pl.xv, 7). From the same rev. die as lot 451