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Auction: 24124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 36: British and World Coins and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 1537

(x) William I 'the Conqueror' (1066-1087), 'Bonnet' Type, Penny, 1068-1070, Lincoln, Gifel, + PILEME REX I, very crude bust facing, crowned and diademed with two fillets at side of head, legend around begins at 7 o'clock, rev. + GIFEL ON LINCOL, cross voided with annulet in centre, pellet between two crescents at each end of limb, pile in each angle within pelleted inner circle, 1.17g [18.06grns], 12h (Mossop, Bc, Pl. LXXXI, 10; Allen [BNJ 2012], p. 76; SCBI -; North 842; BMC II [Coll. 94]; S.1251), a small edge chip at 6 o'clock, otherwise of classic Lincolnshire crude style, with darker tone, a pleasing very fine, scarce

Provenance

The Steve J Green Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins [with his tickets and envelope]

DNW 171, 12 March 2020, lot 162 - £500

Ormonde Coins, by private treaty, 2010

Spink 200, 1 October 2009, lot 19 - £420 [Headon]

Morton & Eden 30, 29 November 2007, lot 142 - "rim chipped below bust, about very fine" [Spink, ref. SPK23112]

Dr R T Cassel, First Portion, Glendining, 3-4 December 1924, lot 98 - "Bonnet” type, rev. GIFEL ON LINCOL., cross voided, &c., B.M. Cat., type II., Hawkins 234, good coin, [but] has a slight edge chip" - £1.14.0

~ Possibly from the Oulton, Staffordshire Hoard (1795) ~

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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£350