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Auction: 24006 - British and World Coins
Lot: 92

Henry II (1154-1189), 'Tealby' Penny, c. 1158-1163, Class A2, Carlisle, Willem FitzErembald, square-cut lettering, crowned and draped bust facing, holding cross potent-tipped sceptre, pellets on fold of mantle, rev. + WILLEM . ON . CARDV, short cross potent, small cross pattées in angles, additional pellet in second quarter, 1.392g [21.48grns], 8h, m.m. cross pattée (Mr. John Harland, F.S.A [1864], p. 22; P Seaby [SCMB, March 1954], p. 100, no. 164; FEJ 1420[a]; North 952/2; BMC 212; S.1337), a rich dark cabinet tone, on a neat round flan, about very fine, the reverse strikingly bold for issue, scarce

Provenance

The Hartland Collection of English Coins

A H Baldwin, by private treaty, July 1955 - £2.10.0 [with ticket in hand of Fred Baldwin]




"The proofs adduced by Mr. Taylor Combe to show that the Tealby coins were those of Henry II, will be found in Ruding and the Archaeologia. In the same manner, William, the moneyer of Carlisle, whom we find on the Tealby coins as WILLEM ON CARDV, is mentioned in the roll of the sixteenth year of Henry II (1170), and Mr. Longstaffe has adduced other evidence to show that William, who had leased a mine near Carlisle from the year 1156, became bankrupt about 1179 or 1180, and was succeeded in 1181 by Alan, of whom no Tealby coins are known. Against such cumulative evidence it is impossible to stand, and we must therefore accept the Tealby type as representing the coinage of 1158, and agree with Sir Henry Ellis, that this type, more or less modified, must have existed from 1158 to 1180. That this type was that of the English coinage for a considerable length of time is proved by the fact so that among the hoard of upwards of 5,700 coins found at Tealby, minted at no less than twenty-nine different towns, not a single coin of any other type was present."

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Estimate
£200 to £260

Starting price
£180