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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 2

William 'the Conqueror' (1066-1087), 'Profile Left' Penny, 1066-1068, Romney, Wulfmær, + ILLEMV REXI [sic], crowned and draped bust left, trefoil-tipped and knopped sceptre before, rev. + PVLFMÆR ON RV, voided cross fleury, annulet at centre, 1.281g [19.769grns], 8h (Ruding Pl. 1, 17; Hawkins 233; Rev. G F Crowther, Numismatic Chronicle [Third Series, Volume XI, 1891], Type I; Richard Meade [1755] lot 8f ['Rochester']; Samuel Birchall [† 1814], lot 13 [Denge Marsh] same dies; Sir John Evans = Lockett 2836 = Glendining, 26 November 1980, lot 88 same dies; FEJ III, 1602 = Doubleday 798 same dies; D M Metcalf, 'Find-Records of Medieval Coins from Gough's Camden's Britannia, NumChron XVII [1957], pp. 186-190; Peter Bagwell Purefoy, 'Fifty Pence from Romney', SNC, October 1996, pp. 367-368; SCBI 12 [Ashmolean], 11-17 same dies; Allen [2022], p. 180; North 839; BMC I, 39-41 same dies [PVLFMIER ON RV]; S.1250), of excellent metal, lightly cabinet toned across gunmetal grey surfaces; delightfully uniform for strike, a most pleasing and wholesome good very fine, scarce, and with an excellent 18th Century pedigree

Provenance

The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection (1870-1941)

Acquired from Messrs Spink & Son, 4 February 1902 - £1.0.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, February 1902 (P.5178, no. 80606) - "Type as Hks. 233. London, rare, very fine" - £1.0.0

Denge Marsh Hoard, 1739

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