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Auction: 24006 - British and World Coins
Lot: 6

Richard I 'the Lionheart' (1189-1199), 'Short Cross' Penny, c. 1190-1194, Class 3ab2, Canterbury, Goldwine, hENRICVS R | EX, square cut lettering, crowned bust facing, pellets in beard, holding trefoil-tipped sceptre, rev. + GOLDWINE • ON • CA, voided short cross pommée, cross pommées in angles, 1.45g, 2h (SCBI [Mass], 734 this coin; North 967; S.1347), slightly die-capped with resultant softness to peripheries, otherwise of excellent metal, with a light cabinet tone, about very fine, with sharper profile of this most famous King

Provenance

The Isladulcie Collection of Medieval Silver Coins
Professor Jeffrey D Mass, Part IV, DNW 73A, 14-15 March 2007, lot 1244 [with his envelope and ticket]

C R Wren collection

A H Baldwin, by private treaty, 1996 - £55


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Estimate
£140 to £200

Starting price
£130