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John (1199-1216), Penny, class Vb 1, London, Iohan, iohan · on · lvnd, d with comet-tailed serifs, curls 3/3, 1.43g/3h (SCBI Mass 1413; N 970; S 1351). A little off-centre and legends weak in places, otherwise very fine with clear portrait, extremely rare, the moneyer otherwise unknown for this class at London £150-200

Provenance: T.W.J.D. Dupree Collection; J.P. Mass Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 65, 16 March 2005, lot 675 [from Spink 1989]; J. Sazama Collection, Part V, DNW Auction 104, 5 December 2012, lot 100.

It has been suggested that this is possibly a wrongly engraved coin of Canterbury