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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 400

Stephen (1135-1154), Penny, 1.14g, 'Watford' type (BMC 1), Lewes, Willelm, crowned bust right breaking legend, sceptre before, stiefn[e re?] rev. pil[lem]:on:lepe:, cross moline, a fleur in each angle (Allen BNJ 2012, p.111; Mack 20c; N.873; S.1278), a field find, the flan slightly undulating and with a line of surface delamination on the reverse which has developed into a crack in areas, otherwise a very full and round piece, the portrait well presented, very fine for this

provenance:
Found East Dorset, 2014
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2014.0363

Willelm is also known to have struck a defaced die type I penny which has a cross struck onto the king's shoulder

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Sold for
£350