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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1049

Henry I 'Beauclerc' (1100-1135), 'Facing Bust/Cross in Quatrefoil' Type, Penny, c. 1109, Hastings, Sperling, + [h]ENRIC RE, crowned bust facing, wearing mantle, voided-quatrefoil tipped sceptre over shoulder, voided quatrefoil and star in right field, rev. + SPERLINC : ON : hAS, short cross potent annulets in angles, all in voided quadrilobe with annulets at tips and voided quatrefoils in spandrels, 1.28g [19.75grns], 9h, i.m. cross pattee (Allen, BNJ 2012, –; EMC 2023.0337 this coin; North 865; BMC IX; Spink 1270), officially snicked to centre of flan, otherwise richly gunmetal-blue field toned, on a concave flan, otherwise extraordinarily uniform for strike, a really good very fine to about extremely fine for issue, a truly exemplary "connoisseur" example, the sole recorded example of a Type IX Penny for Hastings, and only ninth documented coin of this moneyer who operated from 1092 under William Rufus; made all the more deeply being issued by the second son of the Conqueror and third Norman King from the site of their history-altering victory

Provenance

Found at Rempstone, Rushcliffe District (Nottinghamshire), Sunday 10 September 2023

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, ref. EMC 2023.0337 ~

~ Disclaimed for "significance" under the 30 July 2023 revision to the Treasure Act (1996) ~

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Sold for
£5,200

Starting price
£4500