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Auction: 19026 - The Williams Collection Part IV - Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 684

(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 0.92g, Cross Moline ('Watford') type, S?, Godfrey, crowned and diademed bust right, holding sceptre in right hand, rev. [godfrei: o]n: s, cross moline, fleur in each angle (Mack - ; N.873; S.1278), obverse off-centre and much of the legends flat, fine, rare

provenance:
St James's auction 3, 3 October 2005, lot 131
Beauvais hoard, Glendining, November 1987, lot 131

The reverse die reading is established from a die duplicate in the lot from the Beauvais hoard cited above. The mint remains uncertain since the moneyer Godfrey is otherwise unknown at the period.

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Estimate
£150 to £200