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Great Britain, The Angevin Party. Henry AR Fragment Penny. Irregular issue imitating a Stephen I cross moline ('Watford') Type 1. Uncertain mint (Winchester?), 1142-1150. [...]VIRICVS, crowned bust to right, holding lis-tipped sceptre / [...] • AIR • III : W(?)[...], cross moline, annulet at ends, inwards facing fleurs in angles, small saltire in centre of cross. EMC 2022.0071 (this coin); cf. Mack type 244; North 937; SCBC 1327-1327; M. Faintich, 'A Few Unusual Coins of the Anarchy (1138-1153),' in NumCirc CXIII.5 (October 2005), p. 306, fig. 5. 0.52g, 17mm.
Very Fine. Very Rare.
This coin recorded in the Early Medieval Coin Finds database, available online at: https://emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk;
From a private UK collection, collector's ticket included.
Stephen of Blois seized the English throne following the death of his uncle Henry I who had designated his daughter, Matilda, as heir. Civil war ensued with arrival of Matilda in England in 1139 and pennies where struck in her name and in the name of her son, Henry of Anjou (the future Henry II).
This coin is a copy of a Stephen cross moline ('Watford') type 1 penny and appears to be in the name of Henry. It has been suggested that this type (North 937) was issued by the Angevin opponents of King Stephen during the civil war. Several mints have been recorded for this issue, one of which is Wallingford, where there was an Angevin castle and close to where this coin was found.
Very Fine. Very Rare.
This coin recorded in the Early Medieval Coin Finds database, available online at: https://emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk;
From a private UK collection, collector's ticket included.
Stephen of Blois seized the English throne following the death of his uncle Henry I who had designated his daughter, Matilda, as heir. Civil war ensued with arrival of Matilda in England in 1139 and pennies where struck in her name and in the name of her son, Henry of Anjou (the future Henry II).
This coin is a copy of a Stephen cross moline ('Watford') type 1 penny and appears to be in the name of Henry. It has been suggested that this type (North 937) was issued by the Angevin opponents of King Stephen during the civil war. Several mints have been recorded for this issue, one of which is Wallingford, where there was an Angevin castle and close to where this coin was found.