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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 265

Henry I 'Beauclerc (1100-1135), 'Facing Bust/Cross in Quatrefoil' Sub-Variety, Penny, c. 1109, Southwark, Driu, + hENRICV[S], uncrowned and draped three-quarters bust left, holding lys-tipped sceptre over shoulder, no quadrilobe in right field, rev. + DRIV [: O]N : SDE• recumbent S, short cross fleury annulets in angles, all in voided quadrilobe with annulets at tips and voided quatrefoils in spandrels, 1.06g [16.36grns], 4h, i.m. cross pattée (Allen [2012] -; North - [cf. 865 variety]; BMC - [cf. IX variety]; S. - [cf. 1270 variety]), crimped, creased and straightened, some peripheral striking softness, otherwise bright and on a neat round flan, about very fine for issue, a previously unrecorded moneyer and Southwark mint sub-variant of the Type 9 coinage, UNIQUE and of numismatic interest thus

Provenance

Found near Gloucester (Gloucestershire), Monday 29 April 2024

~ Recorded with the British Museum, ref. PAS: GLO-B9734A ~

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, ref. EMC 2024.0173 ~



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