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№ 581

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8 June 2016

Hammer Price:
£2,400

Stephen (1135-1154), Penny, Flag type, York, Uhtred, bust right, holding lance with pennant, stiefne r, rev. cross moline with fleurs in angles, vhtdred : on : e [ – ], 1.28g/7h (EMC 2016.0058; cf. M 217a; cf. N 919; S 1313). Slightly bent and flat in places, otherwise very fine, portrait better, extremely rare £2,400-3,000

Provenance: Found near Driffield (E. Yorkshire), 2016.

Unlike most of the other extant specimens, there is no star or mullet in the obverse field between the banner and the inner circle