Details
LOT 3751
England. Norman, William I 'the Conqueror' AR Penny. Struck circa 1068-1070. Uncertain mint; uncertain moneyer. Bonnet type (BMC ii).
[✠ PILLEMV]S [REX], crowned facing bust / ✠ GOL[...] ON COLEC(?), voided cross, with annulet at centre, pile in each quarter, and pellet-between-crescents at each end. North 842; SCBC 1251. Near Fine. Broken and repaired.(0.99gr, 20mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Found Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK, 2025.
From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.
Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0267.
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