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Auction: 18048 - The Williams Collection Part III - Norman Coins
Lot: 382

(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 0.99g, variety of Cross Moline ('Watford') type with roundels on reverse (probably struck c.1141), Ipswich, Rodger, + stiefn[e], crowned and diademed bust right, holding sceptre in right hand, crude portrait with sharp pointed nose, rev. [+ rodgi]er : on [: gip], cross moline, fleur in each angle, a vertical line of three roundels across the centre (Mack 163, same reverse die; N.892 - ER; S.1288), very fine, extremely rare

provenance:
CNG, Triton XV, 3 January 2012, lot 1899
Marshall Faintich collection
Found by metal detectorist Wayne Davies on West Fen Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire, 25 May 2002
EMC 2002.0150 and Coin Register 2002,216

One of the very distinctive group of coins from East Anglian mints (Ipswich, Thetford, Sudbury and Bury St Edmunds) with three roundels on the reverse. Stephen was captured at the battle of Lincoln, 2 February 1141, and the coins were struck under the auspices of his wife, Matilda of Boulogne, who was tireless in raising funds, and armies, while her husband was in captivity. The roundels are a reference to Matilda's family badge of the House of Boulogne.



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£1,300