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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: 7067

Henry I 'Beauclerc' (1100-1135), 'Full Face/Cross Fleury' Type, Penny, struck c. 1117, Thetford, Burgheard, + hENRICVS REX ANG, crowned and draped bust facing, rev. + BVREhART : ON : TET, short cross fleury, 1.37g, 3h (Rashleigh [1909], 465 = SCBI 20 [Mack], 1537 this coin; SCBI 54 [Stockholm], 1337; North 866; BMC X; Spink 1271), officially snicked planchet and the surfaces scuffed but fully legible, darkly toned and scarcely fine, but excessively rare - this the 1909 discovery piece that confirmed W J Andrews thesis and one of only two known

Provenance

SNC, September 1985, no. 5779 - slight edge nick, otherwise very fine

Commander Richard Paston Mack, Sylloge 1537, by private treaty with Spink after 1975 and 1977 public sales

"Chiefly Saxon and Norman Pennies from a Celebrate Collection. Offered at advantageous prices for a safe investment.", SNC, May-June 1917, no. 52778, also unpublished, RR, fine - £5.10.0
Major P W P Carlyon-Britton, Second Portion, Sotheby's, 20 November 1916, lot 1352 - fine and extremely rare, unpublished. This coin clearly assigns the moneyer Burehart to Thetford; previously, in Mr. Andrew's work, his provenance was not ascertained owing to the illegibility of the mint-name on the then known coins bearing his name. From the Rashleigh collection (lot 465) - £4.10.0 [Spink]

E W Rashleigh, Sotheby's, 21 June 1909, lot 465 - fine, an extremely rare type. This coin establishes the mint for this moneyer (c.f. NumChron IV, Vol. I, pp. 82 and 491 [Obv. 258, Rev. IV]) -

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Estimate

Starting price
£150