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

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Lot

№ 450

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16 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£700

Short Cross coins, Ia1/Ia2, Wilton, Rodbert, rodbert · on · wil: (over win), obv. square es, prominent cheekbones defined by pellets, double drapery, low angled sceptre, dies 5/5, 1.31g/5h (SCBI 166). Nearly very fine, very rare (£300-350)

Provenance:
J.D. Brand Collection
F. Elmore Jones Collection, Glendining Auction, 13 April 1983, lot 1194
SCMB August 1983 (E 511)
bt 1989.

The alteration of the
rev. 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, where this coin is illustrated as pl.xv, 7). From the same rev. die as lot 451