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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6330319, member: 110504&quot;][USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER], not to second-guess how much help this will be, but back to North, it&#039;s clearly (...well, after a Little squinting) the moneyer, Meinir on Cant[or], whose tenure there corresponds to North&#039;s classes 2-4b.&nbsp; ...Corresponding, by themselves, to the entire reign of Richard, and into the reign of John (from Stewartby: 1189-(1199)-1204).&nbsp; Given which, yours is looking a lot like his 968/1, Class 4.</p><p>Meanwhile, Stewartby --who, for the Angevin period, took North&#039;s ball and ran with it-- elaborates on North&#039;s classes.&nbsp; Yours is looking like Class IVa (<i>sic</i>), which Stewartby dates to c. 1194-1204.&nbsp; Here&#039;s his description of the class.</p><p>&quot;Normally two, three or four thick curls each side; sometimes pellets in lower curls.&nbsp; Face withpointed or rounded chin.&nbsp; Crown of seven pearls.&nbsp; Colon stops (by <i>on</i>) on some early rev. dies ([citing] Lawrence &#039;IIb,&#039; Brand &#039;IVa&#039;): [mints] London, Canterbury, Winchester (VR) and York only.&quot;&nbsp; (<u>English Coins: 1180-1551</u>; Spink 2009, p. 68.)</p><p>...And,&nbsp; Yike, [USER=106975]@Clonecommanderavgvsvs[/USER], I still need to write that Hammered maven in the UK!&nbsp; <b>Sorry</b> for that.&nbsp; Likely to do that next.</p><p>...Not to mention that some Serious, Live tidying of the apartment is called for, just for enough flat real estate (please read, desk and table space) to keep as many books open at the same time as this sort of thing calls for![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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