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Auction: 18048 - The Williams Collection Part III - Norman Coins
Lot: 423

(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 1.32g, Cross Pommée (Awbridge) type, Exeter, Ailric, crowned and bearded bust three-quarters left, holding sceptre in right hand, rev. ailric [...], voided cross within beaded quatrefoil, a fleur in each angle springing from the quatrefoil (BMC 191 same reverse die; Elmore-Jones, BNJ XXVIII, pl. XXXI, no. 7; Mack 107; N.881; S.1282), reverse off-centre and legends weak, otherwise very fine, an extremely rare type for Exeter

provenance:
Spink auction 81, 19 November 1990, lot 106
Elmore-Jones, Glendining, 10 April 1984, lot 1397
Brettell, Glendining, 28 October 1970, lot 305
Steven Simpson collection, purchased en bloc by Brettell in 1955

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