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PLANTAGENET. temp. Richard I – John. 1189-1216. AR Penny (20mm, 1.21 g, 8h). Short Cross type. Rhuddlan mint. Struck in the name and types of Henry II, circa 1190-circa 1215. Crowned bust facing, holding scepter / + TOMΛS OИ · RVLΛ, voided short cross; quatrefoil in each angle. SCBI 56 (Mass), 2175 (same obv. die); North 972/2; SCBC note under 'Irregular Local Issue'. Porous. Fine. Rare.
Of the Welsh connection to the Short Cross issues from Rhuddlan, Lord Stewartby writes: "The Norman castle of Rhuddlan, long held by the earls of Chester, stood on the river Clwyd about four miles upstream from the port of Rhyl. For more than seventy years from 1167 Rhuddlan was almost continuously under control of the princes of Gwynedd. Although taken by King John in 1211 it was recaptured by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth in 1213 and remained in Welsh hands until ceded to Henry III in 1241 by Dafydd ap Llywelyn....Nothing is known of the authority under which the Rhuddlan coinage was struck, but it may perhaps have been an independent venture of the local princes." (English Coins, p. 57-58)
Of the Welsh connection to the Short Cross issues from Rhuddlan, Lord Stewartby writes: "The Norman castle of Rhuddlan, long held by the earls of Chester, stood on the river Clwyd about four miles upstream from the port of Rhyl. For more than seventy years from 1167 Rhuddlan was almost continuously under control of the princes of Gwynedd. Although taken by King John in 1211 it was recaptured by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth in 1213 and remained in Welsh hands until ceded to Henry III in 1241 by Dafydd ap Llywelyn....Nothing is known of the authority under which the Rhuddlan coinage was struck, but it may perhaps have been an independent venture of the local princes." (English Coins, p. 57-58)