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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 266

Henry I (1100-1135), 'Small Profile/Cross and Annulets' Type, Penny, struck c. 1119, Oxford, Æthelnoth, crowned and draped bust left, rosette before, rev. [+ AIL]NOD ON OXE[N], short cross potent, large pellet-in-annulet in each angle, 1.37g [21.14grns], 5h [to i.m.] (Allen [BNJ, 2012] -; EMC 2023.0305 this coin; North 868; BMC XII; S.1273), official test snick at 2 o'clock, otherwise largely centred on a pleasing, square-cut planchet, some peripheral softness, otherwise atypically uniform for strike, a bolder very fine, a previously unrecorded type for this moneyer, presently UNIQUE

Provenance

Found near Mendlesham (Suffolk), 27 August 2023

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, ref. EMC 2023.0305 ~

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