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Auction: 19026 - The Williams Collection Part IV - Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 729

(x) Henry of Anjou (c.1150), Penny, 1.14g, Malmesbury, Jordan, h:en[ ]+, crowned bust right, lis headed sceptre in front, rev. [+i]ordanvs on melms[ ], cross moline, annulet at ends, inwards facing fleurs in angles (cf. Mack type 244; N.937; S.1327), a light crack through centre otherwise nearly very fine, extremely rare

provenance:
Triton XV, 3 Jamuary 2012, lot 1909
Marshall Faintich collection, purchased from Mark Senior, September 2012
Noble Numismatics auction 70, 9 July 2002, lot 1573
William Conte collection, portion of collection purchased by CNG

Marshall Faintich 'A Few Unusual Coins of the Anarchy', in Spink Numismatic Circular, October 2005, p. 306, fig. 5 this coin.
'Upon Matilda's arrival at Bristol in 1139, pennies were struck in her name, and beginning in 1142, in the name of her son, Henry of Anjou, who would later become Henry II of England. The penny in figure 5 was struck by the moneyer Jordan (iordan0, and features a bust right with sceptre and a cross in front of the sceptre. The most probable obverse legend is h: enricvs.+. which would attribute this penny to Henry of Anjou, but Prince Henry of Scotland is also a possibility. The moneyer iordan is unknown for both Prince Henry and Henry of Anjou, and is only known as a moneyer from the mints of Bristol (for Matilda) and Norwich (for Stephen) for this type of coin. The mint name is difficult to read, but most probable reverse legends are iordanvs on malms (Malmesbury), or iordanvs on wellig... (or welig... or velig... Wallingford). The relationship to either mint may be problematic for a coin of Prince Henry. However, coins were struck for Henry of Anjou at Malmesbury, and at Wallingford a baronial coin of Brian FitzCount was struck, demonstrating limited activity during the period.'

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