Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1484. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Henry I. 1100-1135. AR Penny (1.40 gm). Chichester mint; Godwine, moneyer. Type VIII (large bust, cross, and annulets), circa 1113. +hENRIC REX, large crowned bust left, holding sceptre / +GODPINE:ON:CIC, pierced jeweled cross with annulets enclosing pellets in quarters. Cf. Andrew pl. III, 4-6 (Chichester mint not recorded); cf. SCBI 20, 1527 (London mint); North 864; SCBC 1269. EF. The rarest type penny of Henry I, with approximately twelve specimens known from all mints. ($10,000) 

From the William J. Conte Collection; ex Beauvais hoard.