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Auction: 24006 - British and World Coins
Lot: 80

William I 'the Conqueror' (1066-1087), 'Canopy' Type, Penny, 1070-1072, Thetford, Godric, + PILLE[L]MVS REX, crowned bust facing, under canopy, rev. + GODRIC ON ÐEOTFOI, double quadrilateral with incurved sides, fleury at angles, 0.96g [14.82grns], 6h (Thomas Martin [1779], Chapter XXI, "Of The Coins Minted at Thetford", p. 281, no. 21 [St Mary Hill]; Hawkins 236; Major P W P Carlyon-Britton [BNJ IX, 1912], pp. 135-136, and Pl. XXVII, no. 4 this coin; Carson [NumChron, 1949], p. 226, no. 30 the British Museum plaster cast from this coin; Allen [BNJ, 2012], p. 82; SCBI -; North 843; BMC III [1916, ccxlii]; S.1252), unfortunate flan chip at 12 o'clock, otherwise of stable fabric with even rub to high points, faint traces of porosity, nevertheless struck details near very fine, an EXTREMELY RARE type for Thetford, substantiated by an exemplary and entirely re-constructed TWO-CENTURY long pedigree through the cabinets of Lord Grantley (1944); Dr Cassal (1924); Major Carlyon-Britton (1912); "The Bateman Heirlooms" (1893); Reverend Jones (1858); and Hon. Baron Bolland (1841) via Mr King's Auction (December 1818)

Provenance

The Hartland Collection of English Coins

Baldwin, by private treaty, 25 July 1966 - £10.0.0

A H Baldwin, ticketed for stock, 1963 - £5.0.0

Lord Grantley, Fourth Portion, Sotheby's, 20-21 April 1944, lot 1246 [part] - ..."+ GODRIC ON ÐEOTFOI (cf. B.M.C. 213), chipped..." - £2.10.0

Glendining, 14-15 May 1925, lot 262 [part] - ...."GODRIC ON THEOTFOI, small chip" - £0.11.0

Dr Raymond Theobald Cassal (of Abertillery, Monmouthshire), Glendining, 3-4 December 1924, lot 105 [part] - "GODRIC ON THEOTFOI (Thetford). Small chip" - £1.1.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, November-December 1919, no. 76309 - "GODRIC ON ÐEOTFOI. A small piece broken out. F." - £1.10.0

Major P W P Carlyon-Britton, not featured in his dispersals at Sotheby's (First Portion, 17-21 November 1913, lots 691-696); (Second Portion, 20-24 November 1916, lots 1215-1221); (Third Portion, 11-13 November 1918, lots 1844-1846), and thus by private treaty with Spink, 1919

~ Illustrated by Major P W P Carlyon-Britton in BNJ IX [1912], p. 136 and Pl. XXVII, no. 4 [chipped] ~

~ Mysteriously omitted from Major P W P Carlyon-Britton's Sylloge in Spink Numismatic Circular, November 1902, Col. 5658 ~

As undoubtedly:

"The Bateman Heirlooms" (Lomberdale House, Youlgrave, Derbyshire), Sotheby's, 4-6 May 1893, lot 358 [part] - "....GODRIC. ON. THEOTFOI..." - £0.10.0 [Spink]

Rev. J. Jones (of Hereford), S. Leigh Sotheby, 30 July 1858, lot 166 - ..."William I, Penny...doubtful"... - £0.15.0

The Honourable Baron, Sir William Bolland (1772-1840), S. Leigh Sotheby, 21-24, 26 April 1841, lot 7 - "GODRIC ON THEDFOR" - £0.14.0 [Jones]

~ William Till, writing in his treatise "An Essay on the Roman Denarius and English Silver Penny", published in 1838, stated: "The Pennies of the Conqueror are all rare, if we except the Pax type, which from being extremely scarce, have now become very common, from the circumstance of an abundance of them being found at Beaworth, near Winchester. This discovery has furnished us with a new type before unknown ; that of having the portrait in profile to the left, instead of full faced, as heretofore, with Pax on the reverse, (see the plate). The canopy type of the sovereign still continues very scarce. ~

Thus:

"A Collection of Coins & Medals", Mr. Thomas King's Auction ("His Great Rooms", 38, King Street, Covent Garden), 18 December 1818, lot 48 [part] - "Conqueror, canopy type, rare...." - [Bolland]

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