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Auction: 8019 - Ancient, English, Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 825

Stephen (1135-1154), BMC 7, cross pommée (Awbridge) type Penny, 1.32g, Hereford, Tebalt, crowned facing bust holding sceptre to left, +stiefn[e], rev. cross voided within beaded quatrefoil with a fleur on each angle, [..]ebalt.on.her (N.881; S.1282), a new moneyer for Hereford, very rare, bowed flan, edge loss at two and six o´clock, otherwise good very fine Estimate £ 800-1,000 provenance Found near Lincoln, 2007. Recorded at Fitzwilliam Museum, EMC 2007.0090. The moneyer of this coin seems to be tebalt, an acceptable version of the Anglo-Norman name Theobald. This is the sixth known type 7 Penny of Stephen known for Hereford. Of the others, three are by the moneyer driv and two others are assigned to saric. This coin has added a third moneyer for Hereford for this type with a name previously unrecorded in the Anglo-Norman coinage at any mint.

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