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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 444

William II 'Rufus' (1087-1100), 'Profile Right' Type, Penny, 1087-1089, Hertford, Theodric, crowned bust right, sword before, rev. + ÐIDRIC ON HRTFRDE, cross potent over cross fleury, 1.43g [22.07grns], 1h (Hawkins 244; BMC 1915,0507.15; BNJ [1909], pp. 176 = SCBI 20 [Mack], 1471 = EMC 1020.1471 this coin; BHIH Stewart, NumChron [1992], p. 124, Appendix II, no. 5; North 851; BMC I, 16A; S.1258), some light deposits to reverse otherwise fiery orange toned, a pleasingly good very fine, extremely rare

Provenance


Spink, by private treaty [ref. CS(S) 0155], 1 March 1979 - "Good VF/VF" £950


Commander Richard Paston Mack, residual collection dispersed privately by Spink, from December 1978 [ref. FE 19297, with his ticket]


Spink, by private treaty, September 1962


William Allen, Sotheby, 14-17 March 1898, lot 312 [part] - "fine and rare" - £1.13.0 [Lincoln]


Shillington Hoard, May 1871


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Estimate
£3,000 to £4,000

Starting price
£2800