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for week commencing Tuesday 21st April 2026
WI-9316: Irish
Edward 1st Hammered Silver Long Cross Penny. Second "EDW"
coinage, late issue of 1297 - 1302, single pellet below bust, class IV. Dublin mint.
S.R.6264. Part
of a small hoard or purse-loss where the coin was in contact in the ground with
the copper surround. 
£235
WJC-9317: 1631-39
Charles 1st Silver Pattern Halfgroat.
Nicolas Briot's first milled issue of 1631 -
1632 only. Obv: King Charles 1st, facing
right and with no crown, with a sizable ruff, rev: x2 crowned interlocked C's
indication denomination. S.R.2856A. These do turn up
but when they do, they're invariably worn - the Briot
dies produced excellent coins but were unfortunately shallow in relief and thus
did not stand up well against circulatory wear.
This coin very much VF for issue and thus rare. £465
Provenance:
1973
(unidentified) ticket priced at a lowly £18 and later corrected from Groat to
Halfgroat
WMH-9318: Outstanding
Richard 1st Medieval Hammered Silver Penny. Voided short cross, class IVb,
+WILLELM.ON.LVI - London but a much rarer mint signature
(see The Short Cross Coinage 1180 - 1247 by C.R. Wren). S.R.1348C.
Collectors will be all too aware that Richard 1st pennies as an issue
are invariably poor, being by far the worst of the x4 short cross monarchs. This coin is an exception to that rule. Rare thus, especially with
the mint signature. £375
WMH-9319: Rarer
Edward II (2nd) Medieval Hammered Silver Penny. Voided long cross, Durham Episcopal mint signature. Crozier after the
mint signature - struck under Bishop Kellawe. S.R.1369. An outstanding coin in terms of
detail, being one of the very best I've ever handled. This was part of a small hoard or purse-loss
where the coin was in contact with water for much of its 700+ years sabbatical in the ground.
I think you'll be hard pressed to find a better example for sale on the
open market. £235
WMH-9320:
Rarer
Edward II (2nd) Medieval Hammered Silver Penny. Voided long cross, Canterbury mint signature. S.R.1366. An outstanding coin in terms of
portrait. This was part of a small hoard
or purse-loss where the coin was in contact with water for much of its 700+
years sabbatical in the ground. For an Edward II portrait, you'll be hard
pressed to find a better example for sale on the open market. £145
WMH-9321: Henry
II TEALBY Medieval Hammered Silver Penny.
Cross and crosslets coinage of 1158-80.
+WILLEM.ON[.NIV]CA - Newcastle mint signature. Class A2, 1158-63, S.R.1366. SCBI will have you believe that Newcastle, along with Ipswich and Canterbury, is the very commonest of all the
30 mint towns in use during the Tealby coinage. Mmmm. Canterbury is (and Lincoln's up there as well) but not Newcastle and Ipswich - in fact this is the first Newcastle mint Tealby
penny that I've handled in getting on for a decade. An impressive full flan,
well centred early class A example of a Tealby penny
in excellent grade for issue. £445
WMH-9322: Stephen
Norman Kings Hammered Silver Penny - a very rare and interesting coin!! B.M.C. VII, Cross Pommée or Awbridge type, 1154-58: +IOhAN:ON[:---] – Iohan of Bedford.
There is enough of the mint signature lettering extant to get to Bedford, which this coin definitely has to
be because Iohan only issued B.M.C.VII coinage from Bedford.
S.R. 1282.
EMC lists in total only four B.M.C.VII coins for Bedford, which is testimony in itself as
to just how rare a mint town this is.
The Cross Pommée or Awbridge issue was largely
posthumous, being struck in the first four years of the reign of Henry II
(Henry of Anjou). Now in this
coin, we are privileged to see not one portrait but two!! Clearly this is a most impressive double
portrait strike but for those that know their history and enjoy a bit of a
ghost story, I like to think that this somewhat spurious but fun explanation
was what was really going on back in the day!!
Empress Matilda was the rightful heir to the throne from day one, agreed
upon by Henry 1st (Henry 1st did not father a son to live long enough to
inherit the throne and his x22 illegitimate offspring were not part of the
equation) and the bishops. However, the
public weren't really behind this and Stephen, a cousin, had very different
ideas as to who was to rule the country... thus the Civil War, Anarchy and
Stephen as usurper King. Eventually, in
an attempt to bring the bloody period of division to an end, after the signing
of the Treaty of Wallingford it was officially declared that the Empress
Matilda's heir, Henry of Anjou, was to be the heir to the throne upon the death
of Stephen. A win-win for Stephen
nothing really changed for him in that he got to be king until he died, but
also a long-game win of sorts for Matilda, who saw her son take the throne in
1154 - she didn't die herself until 1167.
And yet here we have this Stephen coin, struck 1154-58, being very much
in the reign of the Empress Matilda's son, the now King Henry II, was still
depicting Stephen, the dead usurper king!
Thus, with an awful lot of imagination and tongue firmly in cheek, the
second image is actually Stephen himself, or rather the ghost or spirit of
Stephen, looking down at his own portrait, on a Henry II coin, finally seeing
the error of his ways, asking himself what on earth he was playing at when he
was alive? The throne was never his to
take; many, many thousands died because of his greed; the rightful heir,
Empress Matilda, not only never became queen but had a really unhappy time of
it all, etc, etc. And to top it all,
there was his face on a coin of England that even he, Stephen, had agreed
should have been Henry's. Mind you, it's
very easy to be sorry after the fact; after you've had all your cake and really
enjoyed eating it, crumbs and all!!! A
slight edge chip has been professionally repaired (easily discernable in the
image) and is quite stable. As I said, a
very rare and most interesting coin, not to mention one of the rare key mints
under Stephen - and if you take this to be a Henry II penny, as chronologically
it is, Bedford becomes stratospherically rare - hens' teeth territory! £1,450
Provenance:
ex
Spink
