Coins, Historical Medals & Paper Money

Henry III (1216-1272), Long Cross coinage, class 5b, Penny, Carlisle, Ion, ion on on car (ar ligulate), 1.39g/3h (N 992; S 1368). Nearly very fine but double-struck, the mint unrecorded for class 5 £200-300

Provenance: I. Dowthwaite Collection.

The coin seems to have turned approximately 90 degrees clockwise in manufacture. It may be a blundered striking of a coin of Ion of Canterbury reading ion on cantor, although it is difficult to explain the final ligated ar