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№ 193

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16 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£680

Henry I (1100-1135), Penny, Worcester, Æwi, api : on · pi[re]cestr, 1.29g/3h (N 869; S 1274). Scratch on reverse and legends part flat, otherwise good fine and extremely rare, the moneyer previously unrecorded for the type at this rare mint (£700-800)

Provenance:
Found at Horncastle (Lincolnshire), 2000.

BNJ Coin Register 2003, 263, this coin. The moneyer is only otherwise recorded for the reign on a coin of type XIV formerly in the Richard Mack collection (SCBI 20, 1565: cf. Harris, SCMB 1988, p.39), and possibly two others (BMC 195 and ‘Beauvais’ hoard)