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16 September 2020

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British, Ancient and World Coins

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Lot

№ 227

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16 September 2020

Hammer Price:
£800

Henry II (1154-1189), Short Cross coinage, Penny, class 1a2, Wilton, rodbert on wil (over win), dies 7/5, 1.18g/6h (SCBI Mass 166; N 962; S 1343). Minor roughness, otherwise nearly very fine and toned, very rare £400-£500

Provenance: D. Mangakis Collection; P. Woodhead Collection, Spink Auction 75, 29 March 1990, lot 136 [from Spink 1971]; CNG Mailbid Sale 46, 24 June 1998 (1870); Lord Stewartby Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 237, 28 June 2016, lot 545.

The alteration of the reverse die is attributed to the removal of the dies from Winchester to Wilton following the fire of 1180 which destroyed the Winchester mint (see 'The Emergency Mint of Wilton in 1180', by J.D. Brand and F. Elmore Jones,
BNJ 35 [1966], pp.116-19)