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Auction 20123  8 Jul 2020
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Lot 1581

Starting price: 1000 GBP
Price realized: 2300 GBP
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William the Conqueror (1066-87), Penny, 'Bonnet' type, Leicester (formerly attributed to Chester), Frithgestr, 1.36g, 5h (to m.m.), rev. + FRIDEGIST ON LEI (SCBI [Grosvenor], 396 [Chester]; and SCBI [Mack], 1357 [Chester]; N.842; BMC II, and no. 80; S.1251), a striking and handsome coin, a pleasingly good very fine.
Provenance
The Isladulcie Collection of Medieval Pennies and Fractions
Ernest Danson, DNW 68, 12 December 2005, lot 184 (and on front cover)
W J Lawson, Glendining, 19 July 1954, lot 102 [with his ticket]
Spink Numismatic Circular, 1948, pp. 249
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For the reattribution to Leicester, see Allen, BNJ 82 (2012), pp. 55 and 75
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,500
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