Forgive the poor scan, but here goes;


Henry III (1216-1272) English silver penny. Class Vg (as in 5g), Struck at Canterbury by the moneyer William around 1260.


Obv; HENRICVS REX III
Rev; WILLEM ON CANT





Auction ends 21 September at 19.00 hours GMT.

You want a starting bid on that?

Probably.

Estimated value is about $50. But it's for a good cause so any money raised is fine by me.


Anyone want to start the auction rolling with $5?

5.

$7

Oh what the heck, I might as well shock everyone and bid $20

I am shocked! Woow...

22.22

24.44

Nice...hic... (Excuse me, I got the shrekkups).

$30

33.33

awww I couldn't hit 13.37 dollars

Oh well, 35.55 Fanciful numbers.

Aetheling, are you sure you want to 'give' this coin away? I mean, isn't this one of your "prized" coins?

Not particularly (i can get another one in future without much trouble if needs be... these things are like Morgan Dollars over here; here, there and everywhere). I re-focused back in the spring and i'm just liquidating (or in this instance giving away) the last few pieces that no longer fit. My penny collection is now focused on 899-1216, since this piece was issued in 1260 it's out by some way and didn't fit in the the collection at all.

I wonder what the significance of the pellet inside of the cross is?

All Long Cross pennies have that central pellet (as far as i am aware) i dunno if it's merely part of the design or perhaps it was done to aid the die makers in centering or getting each quarter the right size. Bearing in mind these coins used to be cut into halves and quarters to make up change. So each quarter would have to weight a quarter, and off centres were a very bad thing!

45.00

$60.00

45 minutes remain.

Congratulations Ed! (Please PM me your shipping address, yes again!)


Thank you to everyone who has bidded so generously too.

Aha! I won one.