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Auction: 16020 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 2, Coins of Henry II to Edward II
Lot: 736

Edward I (1279-1307), Farthings (4), Class 3de, bust to bottom of coin, no inner circle, +e r anglie, rev. lon don ien sis, London (2), 0.32g, variety with bust placed high, slight crease, fine, 0.30g, normal bust, a large fragment, fair, Bristol, 0.30g, rev. vill abr isto llie, ragged, nearly very fine, Lincoln, 0.29g, rev. civi tas lin col’, good fine (N.1053/2; S.1445A, S.1452, S1453; the second, SCBI 39/1014 this coin; Stewartby p.178, IIId), the first an extremely rare variety, the others very rare (4)

provenance:
(i) J J North (acquired November 1994); Bt 1999
(ii) ex Dunwich Hoard; L A Lawrence, Glendining, 28 November 1951, lot 1390; Bt November 1973
(iii) JJ North (from Baldwin, June 1983); Bt October 1998
(iv) T W J D Dupree; Bt Spink, June 1996

The first coin was described and discussed in the SNC June 1995 p.182. The ticket with the second coin states ex North SCBI 1014, but the image in the sylloge doesn’t match, the edge loss must therefore have occurred subsequent to publishing.

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