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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 22

Henry I 'Beauclerc' (1100-1135), 'Star in Lozenge' Penny, c. 1121, London, Sperling, [+ h]ENRICV[S R], crowned and draped bust left, lys-tipped sceptre before, wearing bejewelled mantle, rev. + SP[ERLI]G [. O]N . LVND: the colon formed of a large lower and smaller upper stop, lys-tipped lozenge, six-pointed star at centre, voided trefoils in angle, 1.318g [20.340grns], 1h (Hawkins 265; W J Andrew, 'A Numismatic History of the Reign of Henry I: 1100-1135' [NumChron, 1901], p. 310 this coin listed; Murdoch 237 = Carlyon-Britton 1355 = Ryan 909 = Mack = Baldwin 57, 4 May 2004, lot 1055; SCBI 11 [Stockholm], 787; BM 1869,0719.1 same dies; BM 1973,0873.156 same obverse die [Lincoln Hoard]; North 869; BMC XIII, 95 same dies; S.1274), stress-marked, slightly crimped and the obverse off-struck from a square-cut and unfinished [?] die, with resultant peripheral "softness", otherwise with an imposing Henrician portrait, otherwise lightly toned, struck details very fine and very rare, with only four specimens known to Andrew in 1901 including two in institutions (British Museum and Hunterian); and truly poignant being struck in the aftermath of the 'White Ship' disaster whence heir apparent William Adelin drowned in the English Channel

Provenance

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

Acquired from Messrs Spink & Son, 11 June 1900 - £2.0.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, June 1900 (P.4051, no. 63366) - "London. Hks. 265. Type as no 63364. Rev. + SP — ON: LVND : A fine portrait of the king. A cheap coin. RR. very fine" - £2.0.0

J J Nunn, Sotheby's, 27 November - 2 December 1896, lot 219 - "S....IG. ON. LVNDE. [sic], fine portrait, and very rare" - £1.6.0 [Spink]

W S Lincoln, by private treaty with John Joseph Nunn of Downham Market (Norfolk), 1889

William A Cotton, Sotheby's, 27-28 May 1889, lot 69 - "S. . IG. ON. LVNDE. [sic], fine portrait, and rare" - £1.14.0 [Lincoln]





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