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Henry I (1100-1135), Penny, Quadrilateral on Cross Fleury type, Carlisle, Erebald, erebald:on:[c]ard, 1.28g/6h (Harris, SCMB 1983, p.229; BMC –, but listed in table of moneyers on p.cci; N 871; S 1276). Obverse good fine with an excellent portrait, reverse about fine and poorly struck but the moneyer’s name clear, extremely rare of this mint (£600-800)

This hitherto unrecognised example of a Henry I type XV Carlisle penny is from the same obv. die as one of the two specimens in the British Museum (BM 1950 6-6-11, ex L.A. Lawrence, from Seaby, 1930), and possibly from the same rev. die as FEJ 1086, which realised £1,450 when auctioned in 1983. It is believed that only six other specimens are known, the two in the British Museum (the other BM 1926 3-2, ex L.A. Lawrence, Ellman Brown and P. Carlyon-Britton 1427), one in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (SCBI 53, 260), two formerly in the Elmore Jones collection (one also now in the BM), and one in the H.A. Parsons Collection (1954, lot 249). The obverse of the present coin is superior to all these others