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Auction: 4018 - The Coinex Auction
Lot: 395

Henry I, Penny, 1.40g., type XI, Northampton, Thort, large artistic crowned bust left, wearing robe and holding sceptre, [.]en[.] r, rev. double inscription around cross pattée, outer inscription divided by four quatrefoils, dor[…] hamtv (BMC -; N.867; S.1272), tiny official edge snick, portrait lightly double struck, otherwise very fine, unique and unrecorded, a new type for Northampton Estimate £ 1,250-1,500 The Northampton mint, though now known for twelve of the fifteen types of Henry I, is extremely rare prior to type XIII

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