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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 6

William 'the Conqueror' (1066-1087), 'Two Stars' Penny, 1074-1077, London, Godwig, + PILLEM REX A, commencing at 12 o'clock, crowned bust facing, stars flanking in fields, rev. + GOPI ON LVNDE [sic], pellet-tipped quatrefoil over cross bottonée, 1.200g [18.519grns], 6h (Hawkins 238; Rev. G F Crowther, Numismatic Chronicle [Third Series, Volume XI, 1891], Type VI; Rev. T F Dymock [1858], 178 = Rostron [1892], 22 = Astronomer [1906], 214; Capt. R M Murchison [1864], 19 = BMC 349 [GODPI ON LVND]; SCBI 20 [Mack], 1381 [Sale I, lot 230 = Scaldwell]; North 845; BMC V, 353 [GOPI ON LIINDE]; S.1254), some roughness to reverse peripheries, otherwise of excellent metal, flatteringly cabinet toned with flares and colourful huing in recesses, a bolder very fine, an extremely rare type in private hands, but five die varieties in the British Museum, including two from the Beauworth (1833) trove

Provenance

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

Walter Machado Maish (54 Freemantle Road, Cotham, Bristol), by private treaty, 31 December 1900 - £1.10.0



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