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Auction: 24006 - British and World Coins
Lot: 4

Henry II (1154-1189), 'Tealby' Penny, 1158 - c. 1163, Class A2, York, Godwine, + hENR[IC] R[EX A]NGL, crowned bust three-quarters left, no hair or collar, mantle falls from chin, cross pattée-tipped sceptre in left field, rev. + [GOD]WIN : ON : EVERW, short cross potent, cross pattées in angles, 1.42g, 9h (EMC 2007.0218 same dies [Dorchester]; FEJ Photographs 34/29 same dies; TFC Crafter, BNJ 2005, p. 172, no. 10 same dies [Thorpe Thewles, 1932]; North 952/2; BMC 785 same dies; S.1337), striking softness between 12 and 3 o'clock, otherwise delightfully cabinet toned, on a pleasingly round flan, a bolder fine / almost very fine, and with an outstanding pedigree 

Provenance

The Isladulcie Collection of Medieval Silver Coins
Colin Rumney, by private treaty, 25 April 2006




Regrettably no tickets survive with the coin to establish the following pedigree, but fortunately, and due to the conscientious nature of Spink cataloguers at the Moon and Roth sales, the following extraordinary pedigree can be confidently re-asserted, with the last public auction appearance of this attractive coin occurring almost a Century ago:



A H Baldwin, 'Family' (Basement) Collection

Ernest Wheeler, Sotheby's, 12-14 March 1930, lot 199 [part] - "Pennies (40), of Canterbury, Durham, Exeter, London, Norwich, Rhuddlan, St. Edmundsbury, Winchester and York, chiefly fine, some rare" - £2.12.6 [Baldwin]
Bernard Roth, Second Portion, Sotheby's, 14 October 1918, lot 164 [part] - ...; York, + [GOD]WIN : ON : EVERW, very fine and round..." - £6.15.0 [Wheeler]

A H Baldwin, by private treaty with Roth, 1907

F E MacFadyen, F.R.N.S, Sotheby's, 15-16 July 1907, lot 11 [part] - ..."unusually good" - £3.10.0 [Baldwin]

A H Baldwin, by private treaty to MacFadyen

J E Moon, Sotheby's, 7-10 May 1901, lot 44 [part] - "another, obv. reading as last ; rev. + [GOD]WIN ON EVERW. (York), very fine" - £4.4.0 [Baldwin]

Hon. Robert Marsham-Townshend, Sotheby's, 19-26 November 1888, lot 275 - "Pennies, Hks. 285, usual types...London and York Mints, all good coins, one a fine portrait of unusually good work" - £4.10.0 [Verity for Moon]

Almost certainly:

Tealby (Lincolnshire) Hoard, 1807

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£140