looking for info/prices about William the Conqueror coins

I trust you noticed the $400 coins were broken and either glued together or missing parts. The whole ones were more. Being associated with the most memorized date in English history does wonders for demand.

 

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yeah, gona have to wait a while for one of these

 

Here's a nice site about coins of the period you want -- although no sales information or prices. Mostly educational.
http://www.symbolicmessengers.com/Norman_Coins_of_England.htm

 

Hello, I'm new here and this is my first post. I came across this while doing a search on Google for an estimate of the value of a a fine conditioned William The Conqueror coin. 15 years ago, I'd been given one by a buddy whose grandfather had collected rare and valuable coins. His mother had disposed of all of them except the one and he traded it to me for a Bronze Byzantine coin. I later gave it to General "Sandy" Vandenburg who'd told me he wanted it for his son. Sandy always obtained an antiquity from me every time he'd visit in town with another friend of ours from Colorado. Luristan bronze items, Roman bronze, etc. Sandy's son liked the stuff his dad brought home to him and probably has a pretty nice collection by now. Anyway, the General wrote me later and told me that when he called his boy up and told him what he had for him, his boy dropped what he was doing and rushed on over. I never knew what the coin was worth. His son never wrote me a letter of thanks, but Sandy did. I guess my name was left out of the details of what the General did for his son. Just as well. They were both happy. I'm amazed however what the collectors value is of such a coin these days. Kinda wish I'd have given him something else now. Sigh...

 

According to Spink (2011), the most common English William the Conqueror coin catalogues at £250 in fine (google currency convertor to work out the equivilent in USD). Most English hammered issues from before Henry III are quite scarce, because he instigated a massive recoinage during his reign that saw most coins of his predeccessors melted down and recoined into long-cross issues, and his own son, Edward I (Longshanks) continued with the recoinage well into his own reign....

 

it's strange what turns up in family history searches, i found out that some of my ancestors were passengers on the mayflower, and it that instance they are founding fathers of the USA.

but as regards the original post, william the coquerer coins usually sell at a minimum of £150 to £250 and the better examples can go for much more, but beware of the rather brilliant forgeries produced by trevor ashmore, these are really difficult to spot unless they are really closely scrutinised.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Ashmore

 

Pretty much all white people of European descent are descended from William the Conqueror. In fact, it is mathematically improbable that you aren't, unless you are from a particularly isolated tribal people living in the Amazonian rainforest....