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Auction 19026 - Catalog 259  29 Jan 2019
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Lot 700

Starting price: 450 GBP
Price realized: 500 GBP
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(x) Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 1.41g, Profile / Cross and Piles type, London or Canterbury, Rodbert, + stiefn[e], crowned bust left, holding sceptre in front, rev. + rodbert: on [...]n, cross fleury with a pile surmounted by a trefoil of annulets in each angle (N.879; S.1281), dark tone, flat in part but about very fine.
Provenance:
Baldwin auction, 4 June 2016, lot 304
David Sellwood collection
Lockett, part IV, Glendining, 26 April 1960, lot 3941 ' on lvn or possibly can'
Rashleigh, Sotheby, 21-28 June 1909, lot 619, illustrated on pl.IX, listed under 'rare varities and types' and described as 'fine and of the highest rarity' £9.0.0.
Cuff, Sotheby, 8 June 1854, lot 762, 'in good preservation and rare', £1.0.0. to Rashleigh

It is droll to note that while this coin realised £9.0.0. in the Rashleigh sale, lot 1024 in the same sale, a Charles II Five-Guineas, 1670, 'extremely fine', realised £7.15.0.
Estimate: £600 - £800
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