British Coins

Henry II (1154-1189), Short Cross coinage, Penny, class Ia 1/Ia 2 mule, Wilton, Rodbert, rodbert · on · wil: (over win), prominent cheekbones defined by pellets, double drapery, low-angled sceptre, dies 5/5, 1.31g/5h (SCBI Mass 166; N 962; S 1343). About very fine, very rare
£300-500

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

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Provenance: J.D. Brand Collection; F. Elmore Jones Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 13 April 1983, lot 1194; SCMB August 1983 (E 511); J.P. Mass Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 65, 16 March 2005, lot 450.

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, where this coin is illustrated as pl.xv, 7)