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WMH-9397: William 1st Hammered Silver Norman x2 Sceptres Type Penny. B.M.C. IV, Two Sceptres type: +LEOFPOLD ON PII –Wallingford (Oxford) mint. S.R.1253. Wallingford for B.M.C. IV is a very scarce issue with only four examples recorded in totality on the excellent EMC database. Of that tiny cohort, one coin is a cut half and another is broken. The icing on the cake is that Leofwold is an unrecorded moneyer for this mint and type. Toned, approaching VF and very rare indeed. £1,750

WMH-9398: Henry II "Tealby" Hammered Silver HOARD Penny. Cross and Crosslets issue, class D, circa 1167-70. [+NICOL]E.ON.GIP. Ipswich (East Anglia) mint. S.R. 1340. From the famous 2018 Andover Hoard - x104 Tealby pennies accompanying a single Henry 1st penny. The coins went to inquest (ref. 2018T600) and were eventually returned to the finder. Immediately following on from Stephen. Henry of Anjou became Henry II upon the death of Stephen - a monarch who had an extremely tenuous claim to the throne and who only stayed as king because he agreed to let Henry, Matilda's son, ascend upon his death - and even though an impressive 29 mints were opened to produce coinage, the quality was just as poor, maybe even worse, as the Stephen coinage. Of those 29 mints, only around a third continued after Henry's recoinage to the voided short cross and come the later long cross issues, far fewer than that. A recorded Hoard coin so good provenance. Class D is perhaps one of the more difficult classes to source. An exceptionally nice portrait for issue. The coin is much shinier than the main image suggests - it has NOT been cleaned, it's just the nature of hoard coins - so I've included this low resolution image here. A rare offering. £495

Provenance:

ex 2018 Andover Hoard

WMH-9399: Richard II Hammered Silver RARE MINT Penny. Initial mark Cross Pattée, obv: RICARDVS REX ANGLIE. with double saltire stops and the French title omitted. The reverse reads CIVI TAS LON DON with a saltire preceding CIVI. S.R.1689. Delving deeper into this coin, the distinctive letter R of RICARDVS is Stewartby R3, meaning a type II coin. The letter I is also type II, meaning that this penny was struck during Richard II's second period, 1390-99. Lord Stewartby describes the first period as "Rare" and the second period as: "London pence of the second period are of considerable rarity". The only pennies attributable to the end of Richard's reign are of type IV, both, like the halfgroats, lacking the French title. No London penny of Richard is known for type III. Please note, S.R. types I, II and III do not correspond to the Stewartby system. In fact, there are only two varieties of London penny for Richard II - types I and IV. This coin has been misattributed to S.R. type I when it is, in fact, S.R type III. The dual systems are confusing so in summary, we have a penny of Richard II, much rarer London mint, much rarer still second period type IV, S.R.1689. Clearly London pennies are considerably rarer than York pennies, with Durham even than London. Many York coins utilised London dies, as well as using local dies as well, but ask yourself this - when did you last see a portrait of Richard II, on any penny, as good as this? Even the groats of Richard II are poor compared to groats earlier and later of the same reign. The coin is slightly chipped at 11 o'clock and has a small hole at 1 o'clock. The latter looks to be more in the manufacture of the planchet rather than for purposefully placed there for suspension - perhaps an impurity in the silver? or a very thin area that gave way quickly after minting? Graded at Fine on the ticket but bear in mind that grading is for the entire coin overall - without the issues, being beautifully toned as the coin is, the grade would be better than VF. As it is, the coin is better than VF for detail. A coin with a couple of issues but never-the-less, a coin of great rarity. £475

Provenance:

ex Distinguished Kent Collection

ex Spink

WMH-9400: High Grade Henry VI Hammered Silver Halfgroat. First reign, Rosette-Mascle issue of 1430-31 only. An interesting muling of initial marks - the obverse being Cross Patonce whereas the reverse is Plain Cross. Calais mint: S.R. 1862. A veritable proliferation of Rosettes with just a single Mascle each side. In case you're wondering what right England had in minting coins from Calais, the answer is that England owned Calais from the reign of Edward III until Mary's reign in 1558; the paperwork to finally give up Calais being finalised under Elizabeth 1st in the Treaty of Troyes. Some say it was a vanity project by the English and it probably was to a point (it certainly cost almost 1/5th of all the revenue collected in England to maintain Calais as an English possession, not to mention the loss of lives, most famously the Battle of Agincourt), but the port of Calais was really important to England in terms of transport and trade. Henry VI was born December 6, 1421 in Windsor, Berkshire and died May 21 or 22, 1471 in London. He reigned from 1422 to 1461 and then from 1470 to 1471. He was a pious and studious recluse whose incapacity for government was one of the causes of the Wars of the Roses. A coin that does turn up, but not so much in this higher grade. £365

WCom-9401: 1649 Commonwealth Period Medal - Succession of Charles II. Obv: Three crowns, C.R.II under, ADMITT.NOE.PARTNERS, 1648 surrounding. Rev: Cupid facing, PER FECI above, 1649 below. The obverse is an old legal process and translates to "Adding a New Individual or Entity into an Existing Practice", ie adding Charles II to the monarchy's line of succession, which perhaps has the tone more of a question rather than a fait accompli. The reverse is actually recycled from an earlier betrothal medal, illustrating the great rush to get this medal out there, thus we have the 1649 date already in situ on the reverse of the medal, thus accounting for the fact that King Charles 1st died January 1649. The reverse translates to "I Have Succeeded", which works perfectly well as the original betrothal medal but is perhaps a questionable choice for this medal, bearing in mind the way that events had already panned out by the time Charles was losing his head on the block. Still, they were at least optimistic, which is somewhat reminiscent of the tactics employed by the Jacobites on their medals just a few decades later. Medallic Illustration (i) 384/1 where it is listed as the very first medal in the Commonwealth section. A very great rarity in the medal world - I have certainly never seen another - as well as an immensely interesting window into one of the most pivotal and turbulent periods in British history. £765

Provenance:

ex Spink