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Auction: 14006 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 229

Stephen (1135-54), local and irregular issues of the Civil War, uncertain baronial variant of BMC I, Penny, 0.99g, East Anglian mint?, William, crudely cut crowned bust right, sceptre before, legend begins at 1 o'clock, vvi[llelmvs?] rev. wlle[..]llil:[...], cross moline, a fleur in each angle (Mack:- N.873 var; S.1278 var), some loss of surface metal on obverse from a scraping action, area of weak strike underneath bust corresponding on reverse, interesting crude style, full flan, very fine, extremely rare

provenance
Found Hockwold-cum-Wilton, Norfolk, 2014
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2014.0095

The findspot of the current piece places it within a stones throw of several East Anglian mints known to have been striking irregular coinage during the Anarchy. The mint at Bury St Edmunds did have a moneyer willem but he is only known to have struck from Type 7 onwards

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