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(x) Matilda (Dowager Empress. Countess of Anjou; in England 1139-48), Penny, 0.95g, Cross Plumée over Saltire Fleury type, Cardiff, Elwine, [:im]p[eatri], crowned and draped bust right, holding sceptre, rev. [elwi]ne . de . ca[ierdi], cross plumée over fleury, right hand arm of cross plain (Boon 79; Mack -; N.936/2; S.1326A), obverse lightly double struck, and weak in parts, otherwise almost very fine, extremely rare.
Provenance:
Stack's, 10 December 1991, lot 1085
Spink auction 20, 31 March 1982, lot 35
Coed-y-Wenallt (Cardiff) hoard, discovered June 1980
This type was unknown before the discovery of the Coed-y-Wenallt hoard.
The hoard 'consisted of 102 coins, chiefly of the Cardiff mint and chiefly of the Empress Maud, at a stroke trebling the recorded total of her coins: there were also coins of a hitherto unknown mint at Swansea, both in Stephen's name and in that of Henry of Neubourg, a younger son of the first Earl of Warwick who had conquered Gower - the most substantial addition to the 'baronial' series of the Anarchy since the discovery of the almost mythical Catal hoard near York in 1684.' George Boon, 'Welsh Hoards 1979-1981', p.37.
The Stack's cataloguer noted 'This issue stands out in the hoard as being from good metal, rather than the other, fragile coins of Matilda.' Boon observes that the two moneyers of this group in the hoard, the present moneyer Elwine, and his fellow moneyer Joli, were new men brought in at this time, 'the arrival of the new moneyers coincided with a considerable tightening up of procedure, grown slack under (the previous moneyer) Willelm; and it may not be too much to claim that the new men were appointed with such an aim in view.' (op. cit. p.59)
Estimate: £2500 - £3000
Provenance:
Stack's, 10 December 1991, lot 1085
Spink auction 20, 31 March 1982, lot 35
Coed-y-Wenallt (Cardiff) hoard, discovered June 1980
This type was unknown before the discovery of the Coed-y-Wenallt hoard.
The hoard 'consisted of 102 coins, chiefly of the Cardiff mint and chiefly of the Empress Maud, at a stroke trebling the recorded total of her coins: there were also coins of a hitherto unknown mint at Swansea, both in Stephen's name and in that of Henry of Neubourg, a younger son of the first Earl of Warwick who had conquered Gower - the most substantial addition to the 'baronial' series of the Anarchy since the discovery of the almost mythical Catal hoard near York in 1684.' George Boon, 'Welsh Hoards 1979-1981', p.37.
The Stack's cataloguer noted 'This issue stands out in the hoard as being from good metal, rather than the other, fragile coins of Matilda.' Boon observes that the two moneyers of this group in the hoard, the present moneyer Elwine, and his fellow moneyer Joli, were new men brought in at this time, 'the arrival of the new moneyers coincided with a considerable tightening up of procedure, grown slack under (the previous moneyer) Willelm; and it may not be too much to claim that the new men were appointed with such an aim in view.' (op. cit. p.59)
Estimate: £2500 - £3000