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Auction: 4018 - The Coinex Auction
Lot: 400

Henry I, Penny, 1.36g., type XI, Watchet, Siv.., large artistic crowned bust left, wearing robe and holding sceptre, henri, rev. double inscription around cross pattée, outer inscription divided by four quatrefoils, siv[..] on pecetpe (BMC -; N.867; S.1272), small official edge snick, lightly creased, otherwise in mint state, good very fine and legible, unique and unrecorded, a new type for this excessively rare mint under Henry I Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 The Watchet mint is hitherto known under Henry I from a single coin of type XIV, moneyer Elwine (British Museum, ex Lincoln Hoard)

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