Baldwin & Sons
Auction 93 5 May 2015
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BRITISH COINS, William I, Silver Penny, Sword type (1077-1080), Shaftesbury mint, moneyer Alfnoth, facing crowned bust with upright sword, linear circle around, legend commences at lower left, +PILLELM REXI, rev cross pattée over small quadrilateral with fleury on each apex, linear circle surrounding, +ALNOĐ ON SIEFTSI, 1.16g (BMC type VI; N 846; S 1255). A little weak in parts, good fine and toned, exceedingly rare and the only known example.
ex Henry Symonds collection (died 11 February 1933), the whereabouts of this coin was unknown at the time of the auction, Glendining, 26 September 1973, see page 10 for a paragraph about this example
with old A H F Baldwin ticket priced at £8/10-
This coin is noted in print as being in the Henry Symonds collectionon on page CCXXXIV of Volume I of BMC catalogue on Norman Kings published 1916. Also it is featured in British Numismatic Journal Volume V, page 109, "A Numismatic History of William I and II" by P W P Carlyon-Britton.
Estimate: £1000-1200
ex Henry Symonds collection (died 11 February 1933), the whereabouts of this coin was unknown at the time of the auction, Glendining, 26 September 1973, see page 10 for a paragraph about this example
with old A H F Baldwin ticket priced at £8/10-
This coin is noted in print as being in the Henry Symonds collectionon on page CCXXXIV of Volume I of BMC catalogue on Norman Kings published 1916. Also it is featured in British Numismatic Journal Volume V, page 109, "A Numismatic History of William I and II" by P W P Carlyon-Britton.
Estimate: £1000-1200