Obverse:

HENRICVS REX. Facing crowned bust holding sceptre. Hair in 2 curls left and 5 right, stop before REX.

Reverse:

TVRKIL ON EVER. Voided short cross with quatrefoil in each angle.

Very fine, scarce and the die sinker’s error exceptionally rare and interesting. Better in hand.

A die engravers error with the reverse short cross design, mistakenly punched onto the obverse die and later over punched with the portrait, leaving the short cross design in the fields, also H of HENRIC over H?. There is a similar but poorer example in SCBI Mass, number 313-4 (1b1 – Reinald on London) with notes ‘traces of rev. design under portrait on obv’ and another example sold by us in January 2022, also a class 1b - Iefrei on London - D1456

Ex Lord Stewartby Collection, Spink Auction, 28 Jun 2016 - Lot 470 (part) [Bt Baldwin Sep 1952]