Triton XXII, Lot: 1401. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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NORMAN. Henry I. 1100-1135. AR Penny (20mm, 1.37 g, 9h). Double Inscription type (BMC xi). Lewes mint; Edmund, moneyer. Struck circa 1115. hE(NR)I R, crowned bust left, holding scepter; two quatrefoils before / + E DM VN D O + N LAPAP, small cross pattée; quartrefoils-in-annulets in outer legend. Pimprez 8 (
this coin); SCBI –; BMC –; North 867; SCBC 1272. Near EF, lightly toned, official edge snick. An excellent example of this very rare type. The only known example for this mint.
Ex Nomos FPL 5 (Winter–Spring 2012), no. 111; Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection (purchased privately from Spink, July 2007); Spink Numismatic Circular CXIV.2 (February 2006), no. HS2278; Pimprez Hoard (Spink 170, 6 October 2004), lot 392.