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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 20

William II 'Rufus' (1087-1100), 'Voided Cross and Stars' Penny, 1092-1095, London, Æthelweard, + PILLELM [RE], crowned and draped bust facing, mullets flanking in fields, rev. + IEGLPORD ON LIN, voided short cross over saltire bottonée, 1.232g [19.013grns], 6h (Ruding Pl. I, 9; Hawkins 250; Rev. G F Crowther, Numismatic Chronicle [Third Series, Volume XI, 1891], Type XVII; SCBI 12 [Ashmolean], 194 same dies [Bodleian Library]; Glendining, 15 June 1954, lot 183 [IEGLPORD O LVN]; Spink Auction 1, 11 October 1978, lot 19 = B H I H Stewart, "Coins of William II from the Shillington Hoard", Numismatic Chronicle [1992], Appendix I, p. 123, Lucas 35 = Shillington 108; North 853; BMC III, 197 [IEIGLPORD ON LIII, 'Lettering Series II']; S.1260), struck with rusted dies, otherwise lightly toned, about very fine for issue, extremely rare, only five examples traced; with two in public collections

Provenance

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

A H Baldwin, by private treaty, 1908 - £0.14.0

Bass, collection en bloc purchased by A H Baldwin (the remnant catalogued by them for auction at Sotheby's, 25 November 1908, lots 19-53)

Samuel Holmes, Sotheby's, 12-13 May 1890, lot 1 [part] - "....William II, with two stars (Hks. 250), IEGELPRD. ON. LIN." - £2.16.0 [Bass]

Shillington Hoard (Bedfordshire), found 9 April 1871



William Allen, writing in the Numismatic Chronicle (1871, pp. 227-228), recorded: "For several years extensive works have been carried on in the neighbourhood of Shillington by persons engaged in the search for coprolites, which are prepared as a manure for land ; and it has been matter of surprise that notwithstanding several hundreds of acres of soil have been turned over, no coins should have previously been discovered. On Thursday, the 9th of April, the workmen had thrown down a mass of earth, which they were proceeding to remove, when one of them struck his pickaxe through a small jar, a little larger than a cocoa-nut, smashing it up, and scattering its contents ; these were small silver pieces, and were soon appropriated by the men. Mr. Weston, the manager of the works, obtained what he could from the finders, and the bulk were given up to Mr. Musgrave, the Vicar of Shillington, who, holding under Trinity College, Cambridge, made some of them over to that establishment, which are now to be seen in its library. Through the kindness of Mr. Weston I had the opportunity of inspecting a few of these coins - possibly one-third of them. There must have been upwards of 250 coins packed away in the little vessel, which I think was buried in the early part of the reign of Henry I., about AD 1110."

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