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Auction: 18048 - The Williams Collection Part III - Norman Coins
Lot: 398

(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 1.38g, Cross Moline ('Watford') type, Stamford, Lefsi, crowned and diademed bust right, holding sceptre in right hand, rev. lefsi ; on : stanf, cross moline, fleur in each angle (Mack 34a; N.873; S.1278), very legible, almost as struck but soft in the centre, good fine / very fine, a scarce mint

provenance:
Purchased from Baldwin, May 1992
Clonterbrook Trust, Glendining, 7 June 1974, lot 45
Lockett, part IV, Glendining, 26-27 April 1960, lot 3929, 'very fine and rare', £24
Roth, part II, Sotheby, 14-17 October 1918, lot 144 (part), 'fine and rare'
Rashleigh, Sotheby, 21 June - 1 July 1909, lot 566 (part)
Watford hoard (Numismatic Chronicle xii, 1849-50, pp.138ff. and plate, see p.160.)
The Watford hoard of 1,127 Pennies and cut Halfpennies was found in a clay jar in 1818 and preserved intact, eventually coming into the possession of Jonathan Rashleigh.




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Sold for
£580