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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: 7047

The Owen-Rooke Collection | William I 'the Conqueror' (1066-1087), 'PAXS' Type, Penny, c. 1083-1086, Wallingford, Æthelwine, + [PI]LL[E]LM REX, crowned bust facing, pattée-tipped sceptre in right field, rev. + IEGLPINE ON PALI, cross potent, P A X S commencing in fourth quarter, 1.42g, 6h (SCBI 12 Ashmolean], 156 same obverse die; SCBI 42 [South Eastern], 1863 same dies; SCBI 48 [Northern], 1121 same dies; EMC 1300.0142 same dies; North 848; Spink 1257), peripheral striking softness to the legends, nevertheless the central devices and especially the portrait imposing and particularly pleasing further accentuated with dark cabinet tone, a bolder very fine thus

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

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£300