Auction: 18048 - The Williams Collection Part III - Norman Coins
Lot: 371
(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 1.14g, Cross Moline ('Watford') type, Bristol, Jordan, crowned and diademed bust right, holding sceptre in right hand, local dies, small bust with pointed nose, small bar across base of sceptre, rev.
DNW, auction 71, 28 September 2006, lot 539
DNW, auction 55, 8 October 2002, lot 1122
Jordan or Gurdan had an interesting career, striking first this local dies coinage in the name of Stephen, then striking coins of the same type using a deliberately obliterated obverse die, and finally striking Angevin coins in the name of Matilda (see Welsh Hoards p. 45).
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£750