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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1053

Stephen (1135-1154), 'Watford' Type, Penny, c. 1135-1140, Norwich, Eadstan [?], + STIFN[E REX], crowned bust right, lys-tipped sceptre in right hand, rev. [+ ETSTAN] ON NORPI : cross moline with a fleur in each angle, 1.24g [19.14grns], 12h (SCBI 26 [East Anglia], 1451; North 873; BMC I; Spink 1278), usual peripheral striking softness, otherwise richly cabinet toned, very fine and pleasingly so for issue

Provenance

M Roberts (AMR), by private treaty (ref. #1615), 7 March 2015 - £770

G V Doubleday, Glendining, 8 June 1988, lot 785 - 'nearly very fine' - £85 [with his ticket, speculating the name of the moneyer to be Etstan]

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Sold for
£900

Starting price
£450