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Stephen (1135-1154), Stephen, Penny, Cross Fleury type, Dunwich, Henri, HI[N]RI: ON: DVNE, 1.29gm (Wicklewood Hoard Sale, 1990, lot 93, same obv. die; Mack –; SCBI –; BMC –; N 879; S 1281). Partly flat behind bust (and corresponding on reverse), otherwise about very fine and dark-toned with an excellent portrait, extremely rare; superior to any of those in the Wicklewood Sale and believed the finest specimen available to commerce (£800-1200)

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The possibility of a mint at Dunwich was first mooted in an article by G. Alliss and P.J. Seaby in 1984 (SCMB 1984, pp.182-4), and a cut halfpenny of Stephen type VII, found at Thetford in 1988, was attributed there (BNJ 1988, p.162). However, it was not until the discovery of the Wicklewood (Norfolk) Hoard in 1989, with its preponderance of local issues, that it was possible to demonstrate, with the exception of those pieces of Stephen type I by the moneyer Fobund, that all other coins of Stephen with the mint-signature DV, DVN or DVNE emanated from Dunwich, rather than Durham