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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 21

Henry I 'Beauclerc' (1100-1135), 'Quatrefoil with Piles' Penny, c. 1111, Winchester, Aginulf, + hENRI • REX, hE ligate, commencing at 7 o'clock, crowned and draped bust facing, rev. + AINVLF ON•PINCE: voided quatrefoil with piles in angles, 1.367g [21.096grns], 1h (Ruding, Supplement 1, 9; Hawkins 252; W J Andrew, 'A Numismatic History of the Reign of Henry I: 1100-1135' [NumChron, 1901], p. 465 this coin listed twice; Winchester Mint, p. 432, - cf. 2178-2185 [8 Recorded, this moneyer unlisted; Allen [BNJ, 2012], this moneyer unlisted; North 863; BMC VII; S.1268), official test snick at 3 o'clock resulting in radiated stress marking, a trace of horn silver to peripheries, otherwise of brittle but good and stable fabric, cabinet toned, strictly fine but the reverse better, presumed UNIQUE

Provenance

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

Acquired from Messrs Spink & Son, 11 June 1900 - £2.5.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, June 1900 (P.4051, no. 63376) - "Hks. 252, type 2. Front face, mantled. + hENRI REX. Rev. + AINVLM ON PINCE [sic]. Tressure of 4 curved and 4 ringed angular sides, enclosing a pellet. One of the rarest types of this reign and unpublished for this mint. Cf. Montagu Sale, II, lot 275, for Mr. Grueber’s remarks anent this type. RRR, fine" - £2.5.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, March 1897 (P.2136, no. 37319) - "Bust facing, mantled, crowned, ornamented with 3 rings at top. hENRI-REX. Rev. Tressure of 4 curved and 4 angular sides, enclosing annulet and pellet. + AINVLM ON PINE (= Winchester) [sic], Hks. 252. Rud. Sup. 1, 9. An exceedingly rare type. Slightly cracked. RRR." - £1.10.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, June 1893 (P.257, no. 5739) - "Front face, mantled. + hENRI RE, Rev. tressure, of 4 curved and 4 angular sides, inclosing annulet and pellet. + AINVLF ON PINCE (Winchester) [sic]. Hks. 252. Cracked, Unpublished moneyer. RRR. good" - £1.10.0

John William Shaw, Sotheby's, 7-9 December 1891, lot 393 [part] - "...Henry I {Hks. 252), rev. Tressure of four curved and four angular sides, &c., AINVLM. ON. PINC. ;...all rare and in fair preservation for these coins" [Spink]

~ Evidently found between Alton and New Alresford (Hants), by 22 February 1891 ~



John William Shaw (fl. 1813 - 22 February 1891) was the principal beneficiary of a significant trove of Verica gold Staters (NGR SU 58.33) found at Alresford (Hants) about or immediately before 4 April 1880. Sixty four coins featured in his posthumous sale, alongside the present coin all stored in his mahogany cabinet measuring (8" x 15" x 10"). Shaw is recorded in the 1871 and 1881 Censuses, as having relocated from Alton, to Broad Street, New Alresford by the time of the latter survey. As the local antiquarian, word of mouth would have passed between local labourers about whom to sell chance discoveries. His cabinet clearly included other finds, including dispersed parcels of the Beauworth Hoard, found in June 1833 (lots 390 and 391), and an Archbishop Wulfred Penny (lot 380) that is undoubtedly the Mack (Sylloge 654) specimen otherwise unpedigreed before Lord Grantley's acquisition of the same through this house in 1902. Were proof still required, it is to be found in the otherwise the random inclusion of a solitary gold Solidus of Constantius II (lot 419), alongside a Bronze-Age Spear Head and some "Roman Brooches, Rings and Medieval Seals (2) etc." (lot 420) - all again evidently local discoveries.



As the moneyer is otherwise unrecorded, and omitted from Dr Martin Allen's comprehensive appraisal of the coinage of Henry I (BNJ, 2012), it has recently been recorded for posterity (EMC 2024.0414).

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£5