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Auction: 18048 - The Williams Collection Part III - Norman Coins
Lot: 432

(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 1.08g, Cross Moline (Watford) type with defaced obverse die, Nottingham, Swein, crowned and diademed bust right, holding sceptre in right hand, defaced by small cross with pellet in one angle, rev. + [s]pein : on : s[not], cross moline, fleur in each angle (Mack 149oo and pl. IV - this coin; SCBI 16 (Norweb) 313 - this coin; same dies as SCBI 12 (Ashmolean) 273 [= Mack 149dd], SCBI 17 (Midlands) 718-720 and, from the Nottingham Hoard, 818-826, and SCBI 20 (Mack) 1629 [= Mack 149bb]; BMC 229a and same dies as pl. lvii, 3 [= Brooke, NC 1915, pl.vii, 3 = Wroth, part II, lot 155 = Danson, BNJ 1968, no. 136]; cf. N.925 but obverse legend not at all obliterated; S.1284), struck slightly off centre, otherwise good very fine, rare

provenance:
Spink auction 82, 27 March 1991, lot 105
Norweb, part 1, Spink auction 45, 13 June 1985, lot 115
Lockett, part III, 4-6 November 1958, lot 2968, as William Peverell, Earl of Nottingham, 'very fine and extremely rare', £80 to Spink
Sheriff Mackenzie collection
The Norweb catalogue notes 'In all probability a stray from the Nottingham Hoard, 1880 (inventory 295).

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