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Auction: 18048 - The Williams Collection Part III - Norman Coins
Lot: 367

(x) Henry I (1100-35), Penny, 1.38g, Pellets in Quatrefoil type, Bristol, Alwold (or Alwald), + henricv[...], crowned and draped bust facing, holding sceptre in right hand, star in right field, rev. +alpold : on : bris:, quatrefoil with star at centre and pellets on limbs, lis in each angle (SCBI 20 (Mack) 1548 this coin; N.870; S.1275), good very fine, very rare

provenance:
Purchased from M Roberts, May 1991
Spink auction 65, 5 October 1988, lot 1054
Mack collection
Parsons, Glendining, 11-13 May 1954, lot 247 (part), 'unusually fine and rare'
Carlyon-Britton, part 2, Sotheby, 20-24 November 1916, lot 1361, 'very fine, a rare type and new moneyer for this mint'
Canterbury (Bournemouth) hoard

The Canterbury hoard of, apparently, 358 Pennies of Henry I, deposited c. 1130-35, was said to have been found in 1901. Thompson, Inventory of British Coin Hoards (1956), notes 'The circumstances of this find are obscure, but the coins are said to have been found during work at the Archbishop's Palace and afterwards taken to Bournemouth. Major Carlyon-Britton saw many of them, but it is impossible to give the exact composition of the hoard.'

North gives the moneyer's name as Ailword, but in BMC and SCBI (vols. 19 and 20) it is given as Alwold. In her note on moneyer's names in SCBI 19 (Bristol and Gloucester Museums), Veronica Smart comments the Old English name 'Aethelweald is by now completely changed to Ailwald/Ailwold.'

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