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This is an unusual piece, for which we know no close parallels. The centre of the coin has been cut out leaving only a circular band with the legends. It has then been subsequently gilded (including both the outside and inside edges) and pierced to carry a pin (now missing).
Maker(s)
Mint:
Rhuddlan
Ruler:
John (1199-1216)
One of nine English coins of the Short Cross coinage (1180-1247) from the Canwell, Staffs. hoard (1991), published by M.M. Archibald and B.J. Cook, English Medieval Coin Hoards I: Cross and Crosslets, Short Cross and Long Cross Hoards, British Museum Occasional Paper 87 (London, 2001), pp. 33-5.
Maker(s)
Mint:
Northampton
Ruler:
Henry II (1154-89)
One of nine English coins of the Short Cross coinage (1180-1247) from the Canwell, Staffs. hoard (1991), published by M.M. Archibald and B.J. Cook, English Medieval Coin Hoards I: Cross and Crosslets, Short Cross and Long Cross Hoards, British Museum Occasional Paper 87 (London, 2001), pp. 33-5.
Maker(s)
Mint:
London
Ruler:
Henry II (1154-89)
One of a collection of 486 coins, tokens, banknotes and medals, comprising mainly 18th-20th century British and foreign coins, but including some Roman, medieval and other pieces. The collection was formed by Peter Allen (1905-93) and given to Mrs Allen Manheim, who is generously offering it to the Museum with the proviso that any coins not required for the collection may be sold and the proceeds used to purchase other items for the Department of Coins and Medals. Sixty-five items have been selected for the collection: 58 coins, including an antoninianus of Carausius (AD 286-93); a silver penny of William I, Paxs type; a penny of Edward II, class 11b3/11b2, Durham; a groat of Edward IVs second reign, London; a shilling of Charles I; and a crown of Charles II; a gold sovereign and half-sovereign of Victoria; one token of the British Armed Forces; three banknotes, Belgium (1) and Germany (2); and three medals, including two German military awards (a 1914 Iron Cross 2nd class and 1939 War Merit Cross 2nd class) which were picked up by a friend of Mr Allen among debris in Hitlers bunker after the Allied capture of Berlin in 1945. Fifty-eight coins:
Maker(s)
Mint:
Durham
Ruler:
Edward II (1307-27)
England, Henry VIII (1509-47), silver penny, first coinage (1509-26), soveriegn type, Durham, Bishop Thomas Wolsey (1523-9), m.m. spur rowel, D W beside shield (Whitton, p. 211 (iv); North 1778; one of four or five known specimens), 0.68g. pierced. From Spink sale 151 (Roger A. Shuttlewood collection), lot 107.
Maker(s)
Mint:
Durham
Ruler:
Henry VIII (1509-1547)
One of a collection of 486 coins, tokens, banknotes and medals, comprising mainly 18th-20th century British and foreign coins, but including some Roman, medieval and other pieces. The collection was formed by Peter Allen (1905-93) and given to Mrs Allen Manheim, who is generously offering it to the Museum with the proviso that any coins not required for the collection may be sold and the proceeds used to purchase other items for the Department of Coins and Medals. Sixty-five items have been selected for the collection: 58 coins, including an antoninianus of Carausius (AD 286-93); a silver penny of William I, Paxs type; a penny of Edward II, class 11b3/11b2, Durham; a groat of Edward IVs second reign, London; a shilling of Charles I; and a crown of Charles II; a gold sovereign and half-sovereign of Victoria; one token of the British Armed Forces; three banknotes, Belgium (1) and Germany (2); and three medals, including two German military awards (a 1914 Iron Cross 2nd class and 1939 War Merit Cross 2nd class) which were picked up by a friend of Mr Allen among debris in Hitlers bunker after the Allied capture of Berlin in 1945. Fifty-eight coins:
Maker(s)
Mint:
Salisbury
Ruler:
William I (1066-87)
One of three medieval coins:
Maker(s)
Mint:
Drogheda
Ruler:
Edward IV (1461-70, 1471-83)
(Second reign (1471-83))
Henry I (1100-35), silver penny, type 13, Cambridge mint, moneyer Algar Fresa, 1.27g. From Granta Coins and Antiquities, 23 Magdalene Street, Cambridge; found near Fulbourn, Cambs., August 2001. This is only the fourth known coin of Cambridge of Henry I (two of type 5 and two of type 13), and its very clear mint-signature (GRA) vindicates the tentative attribution to Cambridge of a specimen in the Conte collection, struck from the same obverse die.
Maker(s)
Mint:
Cambridge
Ruler:
Henry I (1100-35)
One of 42 silver coins from two or more Scandinavian hoards of the 10th and 11th centuries. These came from the collection of James Curle (d.1944) of Melrose, Roxburghshire, and were part of lot 158 at Glendinings, 19 July 2000. The dirhems (nos. 2-41), which are heavily cut and tested, are likely to come from a 10th-century hoard, while the European coins, of which there were rather more in the lot, clearly came from a different hoard, deposited in the mid-11th century.
Maker(s)
Mint:
Groningen
Ruler:
Bernold (1027-54)
Edward I (1272-1307) or Edward II (1307-27), AR penny, Canterbury mint, class 10cf2(a), 1.36g. Fd. Exning, Suffolk, 1990s.
Maker(s)
Mint:
Canterbury
Ruler:
Edward I (1272-1307)
(Possibly)
Ruler:
Edward II (1307-27)
(Possibly)
