Henry II (1154-1189), Short Cross coinage, Penny, class Ia 4, York, Alain, alain · on · ever, double half moon c and es, dies 9/new, 1.33g/11h (SCBI Mass 214; N 962/1; S 1343A). Legends weak, otherwise very fine and very rare, the class previously unrecorded of this moneyer £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Jim Sazama Collection of Medieval Coins.

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Provenance: J.P. Mass Collection, Part III, DNW Auction 69, 15 March 2006, lot 845 [from Format 1994].

See ‘Of Dies, Design Changes and Square Lettering in the Opening Phase of the Short Cross Coinage’, by Jeffrey P. Mass, BNJ 63 (1993), p.39