Obverse:

HENRICV[S]. Crowned bust, looking three quarters l, sceptre in right hand.

Reverse:

RODBERT ON GL[OE]. Quadrilateral with curved sides, lis at each angle over cross fleury.

Evidence of a crease with some edge loss and light marks otherwise about very fine and very rare.

Only three examples are recorded on the EMC and SCBI. The single Gloucestershire Museum specimen (SCBI 19, Bristol and Gloucester Museums, number 444) is from the same die pair and is catalogued as reading GLOE. This reverse die is also seen on the recent Somerset find (EMC 2024.0051), where it is catalogued as reading GLVE. Closer examination suggests that the O punch is in fact composite and overstruck on a V. A further example, from a different reverse die and also reading GLOE, was formerly in the R. P. Mack Collection.

From the J.C. Rowell Collection

Ex 'The Isladulcie Collection of Medieval Pennies and Fractions', Spink Auction, 8 July 2020 - Lot 1608 [bt 21 August 2004]