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Auction: 18048 - The Williams Collection Part III - Norman Coins
Lot: 380

(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 1.40g, Cross Moline ('Watford') type, Hastings, Wenstan, stiefn[...], crowned and diademed bust right, holding sceptre in right hand, rev. [pen]stan : o[n : has], cross moline, fleur in each angle (cf. Mack 15c; N.873; S.1278) off centre and most of the legends flat, otherwise very fine, toned, the moneyer extremely rare

provenance:
Pheatt, part 1, BDW auction 12, 21 March 1995, lot 701
SCMB March 1987, E99
SCMB July 1986, E275
'Coins of the Sussex Mints', Glendining / Baldwin, 14 October 1985, lot 113

The main study of the Sussex mints is H. H. King. 'Coins of the Sussex Mints', in BNJ XXVIII, pp. 60-74, 249-263 and 518-536 (with additional material in BNJ XXIX, pp. 190-191 and BNJ XXX, p. 188). Wenstan, an extremely rare moneyer, is not recorded at Hastings by King.

The collection of coins of the Sussex Mints sold at Glendining in 1985 was formed by the actor Humphrey Lestocq Gilbert (1919-84).

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Sold for
£350