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Auction: 21156 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 12: British and World Coins and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 7279

(x) Stephen (1135-1154), 'Watford Type', Penny, Bedford [?], Thomas, reads STIEFN REX, crowned bust right, rev. [...]MAS ON B[...] 0.97g, 4h (North 873; Spink 1278), a crease through portrait on a dished and waterworn flan, otherwise a bolder fine for strike, extremely rare

In the footnote to the Allan Williams Collection, Part IV (Spink 259, 29 January 2019, lot 707), the following note of interest was appended:

'The best collection of coins of the Bedford mint was owned by Nicholas T Bagshawe; it consisted of 66 pieces which he inherited from his father. The coins were catalogued privately for him by Mr Elmore Jones, and were sold on commission by Spink in 1970. Some were sold to prominent collectors, and I can recall that 9 or 10 pieces were sold to the Bedford Museum. One piece that was sold to Elmore Jones was a type 7 by the moneyer TOMAS and that coin realised £1,600 whan Elmore's collection was sold in 1983 (lot 1103). The residue of 46 pieces were offered through SNC in December 1971.
Interestingly Bagshawe had only three coins of the Bedford mint from the reign of Stephen, two were of type 6 and one of type 7. It is worth noting that there are no Bedford coins from the reign of Stephen listed in the SCBI volumes, and type VII is not represented in the BM collection for Bedford.'

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