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Auction: 14006 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 230

Stephen (1135-54), local and irregular issues of the civil war, Southern Variant, Penny, 1.01g., Southampton, Sanson, crowned bust right of local style with collar of pellets, sceptre before, stefne rex, rev. voided cross moline, annulet at centre, fleurs in angles sanson on an (B.M.C. I, No.242; Mack 209 var.; N.905 annulets on collar listed only; S.1295), clearly a detector find, a typically irregular and small flan as per normal for this issue, nearly very fine for this

provenance
Found Church Norton, West Sussex, 2011
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2012.0223

This coinage has previously been attributed to Canterbury but the concentration of finds in and around Hampshire gives weight to Southampton as the place of minting

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