CNG 100, Lot: 2268. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NORMAN, Civil War. Stephen and Queen Matilda. Circa 1141. Cut AR Halfpenny (18mm, 0.44 g). Two-Figure type, ‘York group’ (Mack 5). Eoferwic (York) mint. [+ STIEF]NE R Θ, Stephen and Matilda standing facing one another, holding between them long scepter fleurée / Cross fleurée over cross pommée in saltire; various ornaments around. Mack 220; SCBI 30 (American), 792; BMC 262; North 922; SCBC 1315. EMC 2015.0188 (this coin). VF. Very rare.

Found near Selby, North Yorkshire, 2015.