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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1045

William I 'the Conqueror' (1066-1087), 'Profile Right' Type, Penny, c. 1080-1083, Lincoln or London, Ælfwine, + PILLELMI REX crowned bust facing right, sceptre before, rev. + IELFPINE ON LIN, short cross potent, annulet at centre, voided trefoils in angles, 1.12g [17.28grns], 6h (Carlyon-Britton, [BNJ, 1911], Pl. XXIII, no. 19; SCBI 11, 543-547 [London]; EMC 2018.0399 same dies [Lincoln]; Lockett 955; North 847; BMC VII [Coll. no. 461]; Spink 1256), traces of doubling and die clashing to portrait, small split by P of PILLELM, otherwise with an appealing even tone, a bolder very fine, scarce

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The George Pickering Collection of English and Anglo-Gallic Silver Coins

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