Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2246. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NORMAN. Stephen. 1135-1154. AR Penny (1.37 g, 7h). Cross Moline (Watford) type, circa 1136-1145. Chichester mint; Godwine, moneyer. [+STI]EFNE:, crowned bust right, holding sceptre; bar across face, roundel on elbow (defaced) / +GODPIN: O[N: CICE(S?):], cross moline with lis in quarters. Mack 10; King 194 = BMC 26 var. (legend); SCBI 48 (Northern), 1192 (same obv. die [before defacement]); North 873; SCBC 1278. VF, light toning, usual flat spots. Extremely rare defacement from the Civil War. ($750)

Ex William J. Conte Collection; Beauvais Hoard (Glendining's, 4 November 1987), lot 107.

The obverse die appears to have been defaced prior to striking this coin (and the other in the Beauvais Hoard). A casualty of the civil war.