Auction Catalogue

16 March 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes, to include the Professor Jeffrey P Mass Collection of English Short Cross Coins, 1180-1247 (Part II) and British Medals from the James Spencer Collection (Part III)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 445

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16 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£95

Short Cross coins, Winchester, Gocelm, gocelm · on · winc·, extra drapery, low sceptre, prominent cheeks defined by pellets, dies 9/9, 1.20g/6h (SCBI 188); 1a2, Clement, clement · on · winc, last n seriffed, dies 8/8, 1.13g/8h (SCBI 184); 1a5, Adam, adam · on · wince, 0.87g/10h (SCBI 180) [3]. First two pierced and last clipped, otherwise fine or better (£80-100)

Provenance:
M.R. Allen Collection, additionally:
First J.D. Brand Collection, F. Elmore Jones Collection, Glendining Auction, 13 April 1983, lot 1194 (part).

The
obv. die of the first coin was also used by Rodbert at both Winchester and Wilton (see ‘The Emergency Mint of Wilton in 1180’, by J.D. Brand and F. Elmore Jones, BNJ 35 [1966], pp.116-1, where this coin is illustrated as pl.xv, 1)