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William II (1087-1100), Penny, Cross Fleury and Piles type, Hythe, Edred, edred on hithi, 1.28g/6h (Harris, SCMB 1984, p.316; N 856; S 1262). About fine, a great rarity; perhaps only one other coin of the mint known for the type (£800-1,000)

Provenance:
Found near Grantham, early 1990s.

The only other specimen known to the cataloguer is that formerly in the Taffs collection (lot 124), which was bought by Elmore Jones and is now in the British Museum as 1985 7-82-61. The Taffs coin is from different dies to the present piece. This is the second Norman coin of the mint of Hythe to have been found in this part of the country – a Two Stars type penny of William I, by the same moneyer, was found at Yelling, Cambridgeshire, in November 1991 (BNJ 1991, p.153, no.138)