Lot Archive

Lot

№ 196

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12 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£1,200

Henry I (1100-1135), Penny, Profile/Cross Fleury type, Tamworth, Lifword, lpord on tamp, 1.02g/12h (Harris, SCMB 1987, p.90, neither moneyer nor type listed for the mint; N 858; S 1263A). Obverse struck from a rather blunt die, otherwise about very fine, extremely rare (£600-800)

Tamworth is only listed by North and Harris for types 13 and 14; the moneyer Lifword appears to be unpublished for the mint