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Message:: [QUOTE="Orfew, post: 3315664, member: 74968"][USER=76111]@Carthago[/USER] A wonderful important coin with a fantastic provenance. I too enjoy tracking down the provenance of my coins. I also like buying cons with significant histories. Though not in the same league a your coin, the following coin has an interesting chain of ownership.[ATTACH=full]878590[/ATTACH] John (1199-1216), Penny, class VIa2, London,Walter, walter · on · lvn, 1.40g/4h(SCBI Mass 1755, this coin; N 974/2; S 1353).Good fine, dark-toned J.D. Brand Collection [from Baldwin October 1960];J.P. Mass Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 61, 17 March 2004, lot 355 (part);J. Sazama Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 93, 26 September 2011, lot 1140 (part)The collection of the late ray InderDNW Auction Coins tokens and Historical Medals September 18-20 2018, lot 192. J.D. Brand was a numismatist who wrote on the topic of English Medieval coins. In particular he wrote on the short cross pennies. Brand J.D. Thompson J.D.A. A Worcestershire Hoard of Short Cross Pennies. Reprinted from The British Numismatic Journal, Vol. XXXIV, 1965. [ATTACH=full]878612[/ATTACH] Professor J.P. Mass was a collector and numismatist who wrote one of the most important references on short cross coins (SCBI 56). This penny of John above is from his collection and is the reference coin in SCBI 56. As I said I enjoy coins that have interesting histories outside of themselves.[/QUOTE]