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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheRed, post: 3574676, member: 87080&quot;]That is a very nice penny [USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER] and a great set of historical notes on Henry II.&nbsp; The short cross coinage of Henry II is a great area to collect, and one of my favorite.&nbsp; Here is one of my latest pennies from the Winchester mint.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]952937[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In regards to the Anglo Gallic coinage of Henry II, there is some very interesting debate regarding the attribution.&nbsp; For the longest time these denier were accepted as coming from Henry II, but some numismatists such as Elias and the Withers have argued against that attribution.&nbsp; I forget all of the details, but the gist is that there is almost no evidence connecting the coins to Henry II while contemporary records note that Henry III struck coins to the standard of Aquitaine and that hoard evidence points to a later date of minting, after the denier of Richard I.&nbsp; I&#039;ll have to dig out my books and look more into the evidence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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