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Auction: 15006 - Ancient, Islamic, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 397

Henry I (1100-35), Penny, 1.17g, Profile/cross fleury type (BMC 2), Lifwine, Winchester, crowned bust left, sceptre before, rev. +lifpine on pnc, cross fleury with annulet cenre (Allen BNJ 2012, p.104, footnote 528 - this coin; N.858; S.1263A), a field find with dispersed porosity, light general weakness of strike but a good basis of detail remains, nearly very fine and this piece contributing to the corpus of knowledge for the Winchester mint

provenance:
Found Wendover, Buckinghamshire (Hampshire stated on EMC)
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, ref. EMC 2010.0320
BNJ Coin Register 2011, Pl. X, No A.233

Prior to the finding of this coin Lifwine was unknown in the Profile/cross fleury type at the Winchester mint

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£600