Henry I 'Star in Lozenge Fleury' Silver Penny - Shaftesbury

Reference:C0196
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Henry I Silver Penny

Star in Lozenge Fleury

Ealdwine on Shaftesbury

1.31g 19.2mm

Spink - 1274

North - 869 Rare

£1,850.00
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Obverse:

HENRIC[V]S R. Crowned bust, looking left holding sceptre.

 

Reverse:

ALDPINE ON [SEFT]. Quadrilateral cross fleury, star in centre, annulets in angles.

 

A hairline fracture running to the centre and a little weak in parts otherwise about very fine. Exceptionally rare with only one other example listed on EMC or SCBI, which is from the same die pair - EMC 1200.0056. This EMC example is Ex Conte, Lockett and P. Carlyon-Britton, and now off the market and in the Fitzwilliam Museum Collection. At the time of the Lockett sale it was described as “probably unique”, suggesting this offered coin may be the only example in private hands.

  

From the J.C. Rowell Collection

Ex 'The Isladulcie Collection of Medieval Pennies and Fractions', Spink Auction, 8 July 2020 - Lot 1604 

Found near Andover by D. Entwhistle, 2003

C0196

Data sheet

Metal
Silver

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