Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1668. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NORMAN. William II Rufus. 1087-1100. AR Penny (1.36 g, 6h). Cross pattée and fleury type (BMC IV). Southwark mint; Algar, moneyer. Struck circa 1095-1098. +PILLELM RE, crowned facing bust, holding sword in right hand / +IILGIIR ON [S]IIÐEP, long cross pattée over cross fleury. SCBI -; BMC 250 var. (rev. legend); M.A.S. Blackburn, “The Anglo-Norman Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum,” BNJ 57 (1987), 179 var. = EMC 1300.0154 var. (same obv. die, different rev. legend); North 855; SCBC 1261. VF, even light gray toning, small area of flat strike. Very rare.