CNG 106, Lot: 1111. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NORMAN, Civil War. Stephen and Queen Matilda. Circa 1141. AR Penny (20mm, 0.88 g, 12h). Two-Figure type, ‘York group’ (Mack 5). Eoferwic (York) mint. + STI[...]ИE R Θ (retrograde), 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 var. (obv. legend not retrograde); cf. SCBI 12 (Ashmolean), 282-284 and SCBI 30 (American), 792 (for type); cf. BMC 261-263 (same); North 922; SCBC 1315. VF, flan chipped at 12 o’clock of obverse. Both figures visible. Very rare.