Stephen Awbridge Irregular Penny
Stephen (1135-54), silver Penny, Awbridge type (c.1154-58), posthumous northern style, facing crowned bust with arm and sceptre to right, linear circle and legend surrounding, cross pommee commences legend at 7 o'clock, +SEINN: RIN, legend utilises letter punches used on Scottish border coins on Prince Henry of Northumberland, distinctive wide style letter N, rev. voided cross pommee within voided quatrefoil, lis in each inner angle, pellet in each cusp, beaded circle and legend surrounding, initial mark cross pommee, +TRININININININ, weight 1.39g (cf.N.881; BMC type 7; 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 only the ninth recorded example of which this is only the third whole coin and the finest in private hands.
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Stephen (1135-54), silver Penny, Awbridge type (c.1154-58), posthumous northern style, facing crowned bust with arm and sceptre to right, linear circle and legend surrounding, cross pommee commences legend at 7 o'clock, +SEINN: RIN, legend utilises letter punches used on Scottish border coins on Prince Henry of Northumberland, distinctive wide style letter N, rev. voided cross pommee within voided quatrefoil, lis in each inner angle, pellet in each cusp, beaded circle and legend surrounding, initial mark cross pommee, +TRININININININ, weight 1.39g (cf.N.881; BMC type 7; 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 only the ninth recorded example of which this is only the third whole coin and the finest in private hands.
