CNG 111, Lot: 1084. Estimate $500. Sold for $621. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NORMAN. William I 'the Conqueror'. 1066-1087. AR Penny (20mm, 1.36 g, 10h). Paxs type (BMC VIII). Southwark mint; Leofweard, moneyer. Struck circa 1083-1086. Crowned facing bust, holding lis-tipped scepter in right hand; trefoil on shoulder / + LIFPORD ON SIIÐEP, cross pattée; letters of P A X S in annulets within quarters. SCBI 12 (Ashmolean), 152 (same dies); North 848; SCBC 1257. VF, toned, die break, areas of weak strike, small areas of roughness.

From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from Jess Peters, 1964.