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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 319

William I (1066-87), Halfpenny, 0.54g, Canopy type, Derby, Colbein, bust facing crowned and diademed within canopy of two columns, rev. +COLBE[ ] OR, double quadrilateral with incurved sides, fleury at the angles; annulet in centre (BNJ vol.II, pl.II no.28 this coin, N843; S1252), very fine, extremely rare

PROVENANCE:
P W P Carlyon-Britton collection
R C Lockett, Glendining 6-9 June 1955, lot 902
Bt. May 1978

Believed to be the only known coin of this type for Derby

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Sold for
£650