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Stephen (1135-1154), Cut Halfpenny, local type, Norwich, Walter, crowned bust right, rev. pal[——]or :, cross moline, annulets enclosing pellets in angles, 0.55g/3h (Allen, BNJ 2012, p.113; BNJ Coin Register 2002, 217, this coin; Faintich, SNC October 2005, fig. 3, this coin; cf. Mack 197; cf. N 888; cf. S 1325). Very fine and extremely rare £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British Coins Formed by the Late Ray Inder.

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Provenance: Found at Loughton (Buckinghamshire), 1995 (EMC 2002.0151); M. Faintich Collection, CNG Triton Auction XV (New York), 3-4 January 2012, lot 1904

This coin has previously been attributed to Wulnoth of Northampton; however to the present cataloguer the second letter of the moneyer’s name is clearly an a