410, Lot: 553. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NORMAN, Civil War. Empress Matilda. 1139-1148. AR Penny (18mm, 0.84 g, 7h). Caerdydd (Cardiff) mint; Beorhtmær, moneyer. Struck 1141-1142. [MA]TILLI[S: IMPER:], crowned bust right, holding scepter / [BRIC]MER [CAIER]D[I], cross patonce over cross fleurée in saltire. Boon, Coed-y-Wenallt 42 (this coin); Mack –; SCBI –; EMC 1200.0220–1 (same dies); North 936; SCBC 1326. Fine, toned, broken and repaired.

Ex Coincraft inventory (June 2010, at £1275); Baldwin’s 18 (12 October 1998), lot 1791; Spink 20 (31 March 1982), lot 16; 1980 Coed-y-Wenallt Hoard, 42.