Obverse:

ILLEMV REX I. Crowned bust facing left with sceptre in front.

Reverse:

PVLFMÆR ON RV. Cross fleury with annulet in centre.

Good very fine, exhibiting little sign of circulation, as evidenced by the excess silver still remaining. With the exception of a few extremely rare individual finds, it is widely accepted that all coins struck from this die pair originate from the 1739 Denge Marsh Hoard. Intestinally, the most recently recorded single find specimen on the EMC database (2019.0282) was likewise recovered from the 'Romney Marsh' region, a collective designation encompassing all the local marshland areas, including Denge Marsh.

"For some time I have been gathering records of the coins of William I struck at the Kent mints. In the first or Profile Left type only Canterbury, Dover and Romney are represented. The coins disclose that three moneyers were striking at the important mint at Canterbury at this time and we have respectively eight, five and nine of their coins. One of the moneyers, Wulfred, used at least two pairs of dies. Dover has one moneyer in evidence with four coins all from the same dies. Rochester, Sandwich and Hythe have no coins of Type I to show. But Romney is exceptional. In fact the incentive to write this article came from the listing in The Numismatic Circular for June 1996 of a Type I penny of Romney which is the fiftieth coin of its mint and type that I have found, all struck from the same pair of dies. The obvious conclusion is that the majority of these came from the Denge Marsh Hoard. Several scholars including Dolley, Metcalf and Blackburn have already suggested this provenance having recognised that these coins are relatively common in public collections and that there is significant die-linking among groups of them."

P. B. Purefoy (1996) 'Fifty Pence from Romney', Spink Numismatic Circular, October 1996, pg 367.

Ex Baldwin’s [bt 14 Apr 1978]

Likely Ex Denge Marsh Hoard, 1739

The Denge Marsh Hoard was discovered in the summer of 1739 by a carpenter named Joseph Coats, who unearthed it while digging a hole for a fence post on the marshland near Romney, Kent. The hoard was contained in a silver pot and comprised nearly 500 coins dating to the reigns of Harold II and William I. Notably, a significant proportion of the coins were struck at the local Romney mint.