Details

LOT 1688

Norman Coins - Henry I - London / Thodred - Round Halfpenny

1107 AD. Obv: uncrowned facing bust with HENRIC REX legend. Rev: cross potent with quatrefoils in angles with +TORED.ON[LI]IN legend with pellet set high, for the moneyer Tored (Thodred) at London mint; with official snick to edge of flan; with a printout from EMC of other recorded specimens. Very fine, near as struck; slight flatness in legends as usual, small flan crack associated with the official snick. Extremely rare as a type (sixteen examples listed in EMC); new dies.(0.66 grams.).

Provenance

Found near Tilbury, UK, 2014.

Published

See Early Medieval Corpus, Cambridge, reference EMC 2014.0258 (this coin).

Literature

S. 1277; N. 872; cf. EMC 2013.0128 (same mint and moneyer, different dies); see Grierson & Brooke, Round Halfpennies of Henry I, BNJ 26, pp.286-289 and Mabbott, T., The Round Halfpenny of Henry I, BNJ 27, p.91 for discussion of the issue; see also Conte & Archibald, Five Round Halfpennies of Henry I: A Further Case for Reappraisal of the Chronology of Types, SNC 98, pp.232-236.

Footnotes

Round halfpennies are known, mostly from single specimens, for some ten mints (of about fifty-nine mints that struck under Henry I) at Hereford (Ailred), Lincoln (Lefric), London ([-]odred), Norwich (Thot and Turstan), Oxford (Aethelnoth), Sandwich (Adalbot, including a unique coin muled with a class 9 penny reverse), Wallingford (Osulf), Wilton (Aethelweard), Winchester (Alfwine, Godwine and Wigmund) and York (Forna/Foren); this specimen seems to be a new die pair for the moneyer Thodred at London mint; a moneyer of this name also struck pennies of several classes for Henry I at London.