Auction: 4018 - The Coinex Auction
Lot: 402
Henry I, Penny, 1.43g., type XIV, Hastings, moneyer uncertain, crowned and diademed bust facing, holding sceptre, […….]s re, rev. quatrefoil with star in centre and pellets on limbs, [……..] hast[..] (BMC -; N.870; S.1275), small official edge snick, legends rather weak, as struck on a full round flan, with a clear portrait, about very fine, very rare Estimate £ 250-300
Hastings is an extremely rare mint for late Henry I and was (W J Andrews, 'Numismatic History of Henry I', p.208) dormant from 1125 for the last ten years of the reign. The Lincoln hoard (divided between the British Museum and Lincoln Museum) contains type XIV pennies of the moneyers Boniface, Dunninc and Rodbert
Sold for
£400