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Baronial Penny, probably Earl Henry, Awbridge style, Northumberland area

Baronial Penny, probably Earl Henry, Awbridge style, Northumberland area

Stephen (1135-54), silver Baronial Penny, probably of Earl Henry of Northumbria (1136-52), derivative of Awbridge type (c.1154-58), posthumous northern style, near full facing crowned bust to bottom of coin, with arm and sceptre to right, depicted with open mouth and pelleted neck band of armour, cross pommee on arm as decoration, linear circle and legend surrounding, retrograde letters reading from lower left with S prone, +SEINN: RIN:, distinctive wide style letter N as used on other coins of Earl Henry, rev. voided cross pommee within voided and beaded quatrefoil, lis in each inner angle, pellet in each cusp below, beaded circle and legend surrounding, initial mark cross pommee, +INNIHINI DI[RIN:]?, weight 1.39g (BMC type VII p.397; cf.N.881; cf.S.1282; cf.S.5011-13). Some light short hairlines on obverse, weak in parts, though with a good and distinctive portrait for this extreme rarity, a bold very fine and extremely rare with only two others recorded of these dies.

$1,809.09

Original: $6,030.30

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Baronial Penny, probably Earl Henry, Awbridge style, Northumberland area

$6,030.30

$1,809.09

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Stephen (1135-54), silver Baronial Penny, probably of Earl Henry of Northumbria (1136-52), derivative of Awbridge type (c.1154-58), posthumous northern style, near full facing crowned bust to bottom of coin, with arm and sceptre to right, depicted with open mouth and pelleted neck band of armour, cross pommee on arm as decoration, linear circle and legend surrounding, retrograde letters reading from lower left with S prone, +SEINN: RIN:, distinctive wide style letter N as used on other coins of Earl Henry, rev. voided cross pommee within voided and beaded quatrefoil, lis in each inner angle, pellet in each cusp below, beaded circle and legend surrounding, initial mark cross pommee, +INNIHINI DI[RIN:]?, weight 1.39g (BMC type VII p.397; cf.N.881; cf.S.1282; cf.S.5011-13). Some light short hairlines on obverse, weak in parts, though with a good and distinctive portrait for this extreme rarity, a bold very fine and extremely rare with only two others recorded of these dies.