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Auction: 18048 - The Williams Collection Part III - Norman Coins
Lot: 394

(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 1.39g, Cross Moline ('Watford') type, Richmond, Bertold, crowned and diademed bust right, holding sceptre in right hand, rev. [...]old : on : r :, cross moline, fleur in each angle (Mack 8 but attributed to Castle Rising; N.873; S.1278), nearly very fine, a very rare mint

provenance:
Stacks Coin Galleries, 15 November 1989, lot 1100

The coins of Bertold at ri or r were attributed to Castle Rising until the discovery of a lead striking from these dies on the river bank below Richmond Castle (see BNJ 2012, p.114, note 686)

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Sold for
£1,200