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Auction: 19026 - The Williams Collection Part IV - Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 727

(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 1.06g, Variant ('Baronial Issue') of Cross Moline (Watford) type, blundered legends both sides, crowned and bust left, of crude style and holding 'pellet in annulet' topped sceptre in right hand, collar of annulets, rev. voided cross moline, small pellets at ends, fleur in each angle (Mack-; cf.N.884; S.1325), chip at edge and cracked, otherwise fine, extremely rare and unusual with left facing bust

provenance:
St James's auction 3, 3 October 2005, lot 140
Spink auction 20, 31 March 1982, lot 95
Glendining, 24 November 1971, lot 154
'The lack of published details prompts speculation that this is a contemporary or baronial forgery of good weight.'
From the same dies as the preceeding lot.

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£300