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Auction: 20123 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 3 - Part I: The Penny: 'From Actium to the Anarchy' (31BC - AD 1154)
Lot: 1584

William the Conqueror (1066-87), Penny, 'Canopy' type, Huntingdon, Godric, 1.29g, 2h, 'sinister canopy ball between V and R', rev. + GODRIC ON HVNTE (Eaglen 297, dies Aa, no. 1 this coin, and [1999], pp. 83, table 25; N.843; BMC III; S.1252), some surface abrasions and striking softness otherwise a bolder fine/near very fine, and extremely rare with only one other coin of this type known to Eaglen - that example being 'chipped at 12 o'clock'

Provenance
The Isladulcie Collection of Medieval Pennies and Fractions
Baldwin 44, 2 May 2006, lot 893
Recorded as in the possession of Messrs. 'Baldwin in 1995' at the time of Eaglen's corpus for the BNJ


For further reading, see. Dr Robin J Eaglen, 'The Mint of Huntingdon', BNJ, 1999, pp. 48-145

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Estimate

Starting price
£350