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Auction: 5014 - The Coinex Sale
Lot: 1361

Stephen, Penny, 1.35g., type I, Watford type, Sudbury (?), crowned and diademed bust right, holding sceptre, rev. […]VLF[…], cross moline with a fleur in each angle (BMC -; N.873; S.1278), struck off-centre on reverse, legend weak, otherwise toned, with a strong and unusual portrait, good fine, rare Estimate £ 250-300This very distinctive portrait, with the head inclined slightly forward, and the hair ending in a curl above a clear expanse of neck, is usually found on coins of the Sudbury mint, moneyer Godimer, c.f. BMC 104. No moneyer, whose name includes the letters ´..VLF..´, is known at Sudbury or the adjacent mints

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