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Auction: 18048 - The Williams Collection Part III - Norman Coins
Lot: 443

(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 1.15g, local and irregular issues of the Civil War, Lozenge and Pellet Sceptre / Ornaments type, stief, crowned and draped bust right, holding sceptre in right hand, decorated at the tip by a large lozenge with a pellet at the centre, ornaments filling the border after the king's name, rev. cross pattée over saltire fleury, within a wide border of ornaments (Allen p. 307, no. 53 - this coin; N.920; S.1314), flan slightly uneven, small edge chip, and crack at 7 o'clock, otherwise very fine and legible, very rare

provenance:
Spink auction 219, September 2013, lot 521
Found near Lincoln, c. 2000
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0284

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