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Auction: 23107 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 27: British and World Coins, Medals and Tokens Featuring the 'Leja Park' Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 7045

The Owen-Rooke Collection | William I 'the Conqueror' (1066-1087), 'Canopy' Type, Penny, 1070-1072, Wallingford, Brandr, + PILLEMV REX [sic], the S omitted, crowned bust facing, under Coronation canopy, rev. + BRAND ON PALLINGI, double quadrilateral with incurved sides, annulet at centre, voided fleurs at tips, 1.33g, 12h (W&W 355-359; Carlyon-Britton [BNJ, 1907], pp. 55, Pl. VI, no. 6 and Sale [1913], lot 695 = SNC 1929, no. 95617 = SCBI 20 [Mack], 1368 same dies; EJH(f); Montagu I, 186a - F A Walters 49 same dies; R D Wills [1938], 290 same dies; SCBI 12 [Ashmolean], 53 same dies; SCBI 68, 1038 same dies; Duke of Argyll = W J Lawson [1954], 117a; SCMB March 1958, 'The Mint of Wallingford', no. 9273 = Royal Berkshire 141 same dies; SNC, December 1991, no. 7980 same dies; North 843; BMC III [no. 215]; Allen pp. 82; Spink 1252), small patch of verdigris to obverse legend and some flatness in parts, nevertheless a pleasing portrait and lightly toned, very fine, bolder in parts, rare

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The Owen-Rooke Collection of Oxfordshire Pennies (978-1272)


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£650