Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1666. Estimate $3000. Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. Sold For $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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NORMAN. William II Rufus. 1087-1100. AR Penny (1.31 g, 6h). Voided cross type (BMC III). Salisbury mint; Eadword(?), moneyer. Struck circa 1092-1095. +PILLELM REI (MR ligate), crowned facing bust; stars flanking / +E[AD?]PORD ON SIE, voided cross pattée, with annulet in center, over cross annulettée. SCBI -; cf. BMC 216; EMC 1300.0026 (same dies); North 853; SCBC 1260. Good VF, darkly toned. Extremely rare.
Ex Rose Collection (Glendining, 13 March 1974), lot 199; P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 17 November 1913), lot 772; F.G. Hilton Price Collection .
Other than the sale catalogs with the present specimen, the EMC coin is apparently the sole published example.