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Auction: 18048 - The Williams Collection Part III - Norman Coins
Lot: 430

(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 1.01g, Cross Moline (Watford) type with defaced obverse die, Thetford, Baldwin, crowned and diademed bust right, holding sceptre in right hand, defaced by thick long cross stretching to edge of coin, rev. + bal[dwi o]n : tef, cross moline, fleur in each angle (Mack 142b - this coin; N.924; RAGC 10 - this coin; S.1283; SCBI 26 (East Anglia) 1470), traces of verdigris, a small edge spit at 7 o'clock, otherwise an exceptionally well struck example, good very fine, very rare

provenance:
Spink auction 90, 16 March 1992, lot 326
B. Nottingham collection
Drabble, part I, Glendining, 4-6 July 1939, lot 721
Roth, part II, Sotheby, 14 October 1918, lot 154


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