452, Lot: 890. Estimate $500. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NORMAN. Henry I. 1100-1135. AR Penny (20mm, 1.32 g, 3h). Pointing Bust and Stars type (BMC vi). London mint; Wulgær/Wulgar, moneyer. Struck circa 1107. Crowned bust facing slightly right, holding scepter over shoulder and pointing; stars around / + PVLGAR[:] ON : LVN (sic), cross potent over cross batonnée in saltire; two stars in each quarter. W.J. Conte and M.M. Archibald, “ Five Round Halfpennies of Henry I: A Further Case for Reappraisal of the Chronology of Types,” NumCirc XCVIII. 7 (September 1990), Plate II, 6 (this coin); M. Allen, “The mints and moneyers of England and Wales, 1066-1158,” in BNJ 82 (2012), p. 77; SCBI –; BMC –; North 862; SCBC 1267. Toned, some porosity. Near Fine. Clear mint and moneyer.

Ex Lessen Collection, purchased from W.J. Conte, August 1993; Glendining (20 July 1976), lot 520.