NORMAN. Henry I. 1100-1135. AR Penny (21mm, 1.39 g, 8h). Pellets in Quatrefoil type (BMC xiv). Wallingford mint; Godwine, moneyer. Struck circa 1123. Crowned facing bust, holding scepter; to right, six-pointed star / + GODPIN[E : O]N : PAL[I :], pelleted cross, with star at center; all within quatrefoil, with trefoil at each end and inward-facing fleur in each quarter. Allen,
Henry 836 (dies A/a;
this coin); SCBI 12 (Ashmolean), 235 (same dies); BMC –; North 870; SCBC 1275. Toned. VF. Boldly struck on a broad flan. Rare.
Ex M. Lessen Collection; Coin Galleries Numismatic Review VI/1 (January 1965), no. A222.