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Auction: 24006 - British and World Coins
Lot: 7

Richard I 'the Lionheart' (1189-1199), 'Short Cross' Penny, c. 1190-1194, Class 3ab2, Winchester, Gocelm, hENRICVS R [| EX], square cut lettering, crowned bust facing, five pellets in crown and pellets in beard, holding trefoil-tipped sceptre, rev. [+ GOC]ELM • ON • WIN, voided short cross pommée, cross pommées in angles, 1.35g, 12h (Doubleday 1027 [Dies De]; Winchester Mint, 2544 [Dies Cd] ~ 4 listed; SCBI [Mass], 838 this coin; North 967; S.1347), slightly capped dies, with resultant softness of strike to peripheries, otherwise softly and colourfully toned with underlying lustre, very fine, with a most pleasing portrait, and an interesting reverse die

Provenance

The Isladulcie Collection of Medieval Silver Coins
Professor Jeffrey D Mass, Part IV, DNW 73A, 14-15 March 2007, lot 1261* [with his envelope and ticket]

Spink, by private treaty, 1993 - £100 [with this ticket]




SCBI Mass states about this coin: "some wiry, poorly engraved letters in the mint signature', scrutiny suggests the possibility that the reverse die was cut over an incompleted and poorly engraved obverse die"

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Estimate
£140 to £200

Starting price
£130