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Auction: 7030 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 133

William I (1066-1087), Penny, 1.33g, Pax type, Bath, Osmaer, crowned facing bust holding sceptre to right, crown 3, +pillelm rex, rev. cross pattée, paxs in angles, +osmier on badni (N.850; S.1257), good very fine, very rare mint for William I Estimate £ 700-900 provenance Elmore -Jones, Glendining, 13 April 1983, lot 1034 Lawson, Glendining, 19 July 1954, Lot 143 Duke of Argyll, Bt. Spink c.1949. With Elmore Jones ticket. Pennies of the Bath mint for William the Conqueror are all very rare and most are of the PAXS type. SCBI/EMC records twelve by two moneyers with six for Osmaer.

Sold for
£800