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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 393

William I (1066-1087), Penny, 1.13g, Two sceptres type, Wareham, Aegelric, facing crowned bust flanked by sceptres, rev. +aeglre on perni, cross fleury extending from central annulet over cross botonnée (Allen BNJ 2012, p.82; SCBI 24 West Country, No 758; N.844; S.1253), a field find, distorted flan resulting in multiple cracks and small area of flan loss, a full, round flan and evenly struck, good very fine and Wareham an extremely rare mint in William I's Two sceptres type

provenance:
Found East Dorset, 2013
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0293

Just two moneyers, Aegelric and Sideman are known to have struck at Wareham in this type. Two other examples, one of each moneyer, are listed in the EMC/SCBI databases and a further example of Sideman's work was present in Carlyon-Britton, lot 702

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