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<p>[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 5148678, member: 109923"]Thanks for the write up. You have a lot of great coins from this period. It's an interesting part of English history!</p><p><br /></p><p>William II was killed in the New Forest (a very old forest proclaimed a royal forest by William I) less than an hour from my house. There's a small obelisk marking the alleged spot, the 'Rufus Stone', that was erected in 1745 and later covered with an iron case after the Georgians/Victorians vandalised it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a photo of some of my family sitting at the base of the stone dated 1869, which highlights how short they were as it comes up to my chest and I'm not even 6 foot!:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1208280[/ATTACH]</p><p>I think the grumpy old lady in black (my ancestor) is in mourning dress, even though her husband died in April 1866, and tradition dictated she only had to wear mourning dress for 2½ years! Her husband was a carpenter in Portsmouth, where the Royal Navy was based - they got the wood for the ships from the New Forest.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree better William II pennies do seem to be generally more abundant than Henry I or Stephen, although that doesn't make any of them cheap. Here's my William II penny (again):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1208279[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>William II penny, 1092-1095, London. Voided cross type. 1.38g. + þillelm rei. + þvlfþord on lv, Wulfword of London (S 1260).</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The stars might represent the comets of 1075 and 1097, or the annular solar eclipse in 1093, all thought to be good omens. (William I coins featured similar stars after the appearance of Halley's Comet coincided with his Conquest of England in 1066).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 5148678, member: 109923"]Thanks for the write up. You have a lot of great coins from this period. It's an interesting part of English history! William II was killed in the New Forest (a very old forest proclaimed a royal forest by William I) less than an hour from my house. There's a small obelisk marking the alleged spot, the 'Rufus Stone', that was erected in 1745 and later covered with an iron case after the Georgians/Victorians vandalised it. I have a photo of some of my family sitting at the base of the stone dated 1869, which highlights how short they were as it comes up to my chest and I'm not even 6 foot!: [ATTACH=full]1208280[/ATTACH] I think the grumpy old lady in black (my ancestor) is in mourning dress, even though her husband died in April 1866, and tradition dictated she only had to wear mourning dress for 2½ years! Her husband was a carpenter in Portsmouth, where the Royal Navy was based - they got the wood for the ships from the New Forest. I agree better William II pennies do seem to be generally more abundant than Henry I or Stephen, although that doesn't make any of them cheap. Here's my William II penny (again): [ATTACH=full]1208279[/ATTACH] [B]William II penny, 1092-1095, London. Voided cross type. 1.38g. + þillelm rei. + þvlfþord on lv, Wulfword of London (S 1260).[/B] The stars might represent the comets of 1075 and 1097, or the annular solar eclipse in 1093, all thought to be good omens. (William I coins featured similar stars after the appearance of Halley's Comet coincided with his Conquest of England in 1066).[/QUOTE]
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