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Auction: 19004 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction
Lot: 103

William II (1087-1100), Penny, Exeter, Sæwine, 1.39g, [+ þ]illelm re[x]i, crowned bust right, sword before, rev. + seþine on iexcec, cross potent over cross fleury (cf. Ruding IV, {Supplement II}, pl. 2, 1; BNJ {1908}, pp. 103, type 2, second listed - this coin; N.852; BMC I; S.1258), softly struck to periphery, otherwise attractively toned, a pleasing very fine, extremely rare

provenance
Brettell, Glendining, 28 October 1970, lot 288 - £135.0.0 (Baldwin)
Lockett, part VII {English III}, Glendining, 4-6 November 1958, lot 2884 - £24.0.0 (Brettell)
Bruun, part I, Glendining, 18-22 May 1925, lot 211 - £6.0.0 (Baldwin)
Conceivably
Lawrence, Sotheby, 24-27 February 1903, lot 75 - £2.2.0 (Lincoln)

Major Carlyon-Britton's corpus on the coinage of William I and II as published in the BNJ {1908}, pp. 97-122, documented four examples of William Rufus's type I coinage for the moneyer Sæwine at Exeter. The first and third examples listed can be immediately discounted on the basis of supplementary plate illustrations, and the fourth, whilst currently untraced, can also be excluded on the basis of mint signature reading.

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Sold for
£3,800