Auction Catalogue

12 & 13 June 2013

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British Coins

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 907

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13 June 2013

Hammer Price:
£1,050

Richard I (1189-1199), Penny, class IVa, Shrewsbury, Willelm, willem · on · salo, a double-barred, 1.38g/5h (SCBI Mass 979; N 968/1; S 1348A). Some surface corrosion, obverse good fine, reverse very fine, dark tone, excessively rare of this moneyer
£300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Jim Sazama Collection of Medieval Coins.

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Provenance: F. Elmore Jones Collection, Part III, Glendining Auction, 7 October 1986, lot 1795; J.P. Mass Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 61, 17 March 2004, lot 209.

At the time of the Elmore Jones sale it was believed that only two other specimens, die duplicates in the British Museum, were known of this moneyer and mint