Auction Catalogue

24 September 2008

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Important British and World Coins including Important Irish Coins from a Private Collection (Part II)

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 3855

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24 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£8,200

Edward I (1272-1307), Penny, class 1b, London, reads ed rex, full face bust with bushy hair, no drapery, all ns reversed except in hibn, 1.39g/1h (SCBI North 24, same dies; N 1011; S 1381). Extremely fine and attractively toned, very rare and possibly the finest example in private hands (£3,000-4,000)

Provenance:
M.C. Tutet Collection, John Gerard Auction, 18-21 January 1786, lot not discernable
S. Tyssen Collection, Sotheby Auction, 12 April-31 May 1802, lot 1244 (part)
Lt-Col W. Durrant Collection, Sotheby Auction, 19-28 April 1847, lot 224
J.B. Bergne Collection, Sotheby Auction, 20-31 May 1873, lot 363
W. Brice Collection
H. Montagu Collection, Part II, Sotheby Auction, 11-16 May 1896, lot 452
J.G. Murdoch Collection, Part I, Sotheby Auction, 31 March-4 April 1903, lot 298
Lord Grantley Collection, Part V, Glendining Auction, 18-19 May 1944, lot 1876
R. Carlyon-Britton Collection
SCMB November 1958 (5689)
J.L. Dresser Collection, Stack’s Auction (New York), 29 April-1 May 1987, lot 1737
Dr G.T. Dunger Collection.

The class 1b pence of Edward I, first subdivided as such by H.B. Earle Fox and Shirley Fox (BNJ 1910, pp.107-8), have long been regarded as by far the rarest of all the Edwardian penny series. Considered patterns by early sale cataloguers (cf. Montagu, Murdoch) and even as a pattern of Edward III by the Grantley cataloguer, their exalted status has been questioned in recent years (J.J. North, The Coinages of Edward I & II, London, 1968, p.15; N.J. Mayhew, The Aberdeen Hoards, BNJ 1988, p.43; J.J. North Sylloge, 1989, p.9; P. and B. Withers, The Pennies of Edward I and II, 2006, pp.20-1)