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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 3

William 'the Conqueror' (1066-1087), 'Bonnet' Penny, 1068-1070, Exeter, Æthelwine, PILLEMVS REX, crowned and diademed bust facing, with two fillets at side of head, legend around begins at 7 o'clock, rev. + [Æ]GELPI ON EXECES, the S retrograde, cross voided with annulet in centre, pellet between two crescents at each end of limb, pile in each angle within pelleted inner circle, 0.984g [15.185grns], 9h (Hawkins 234; Rev. G F Crowther, Numismatic Chronicle [Third Series, Volume XI, 1891], Type III; Brettell -, cf. 245; EMC 2012.0232 same reverse die; North 842; BMC II, -; S.1251), softly struck in parts, with lightly flashed surfaces underlying darker cabinet tone, discoloured thus but of excellent metal, almost very fine, an excessively rare type for this mint; only one parallel in EMC/SCBI but wanting from the British Museum trays

Provenance

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

Joseph Taylor, by private treaty, Spring 1894 - £0.10.5

'The Property of a Gentleman', Sotheby's, 7-8 March 1894, lot 69 [part] - "(Hks. 234)...AECPI. ON. EXECE" [sic], very good coins" - £1.12.0 [Taylor]

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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£5