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Message:: [QUOTE="Nap, post: 2633033, member: 73099"]Nice post on a somewhat overlooked period of British history.  The Anglo-Saxon period and Conquest, and the subsequent Anarchy and Plantagenet periods seem much more interesting to students of history than the Norman period. Similarly the coins of this period are some of the ugliest coins ever produced.  Most are weakly and unevenly struck, with incomplete legends, irregular shaped flans, and varying quality of silver.  A fully struck coin of Henry Beauclerc (or Stephen of Blois) is a great rarity indeed and will sell for many multiples of the price guide. Here is my only Henry I:[ATTACH=full]579668[/ATTACH] BM type X.  Has the official "edge snick" at 4:00, as well as a small chip (or perhaps a second test cut) at 12:00.  Moneyer Godwine, mint Thetford. I don't have any Normandy coinage, but have been meaning to add one.  I don't think the attribution of the William-Robert-Henry coins will ever be particularly secure, they are practically impossible to read, even by medieval coin standards!  I have seen them "claim" to say "Robert" or "William" but I have a hard time accepting the interpretation of the legend.  There are neater coins of Richard I "the Fearless" which is a good type coin for early Normandy, priced to fit most people's budget with thousands of high grade examples recovered from the Fecamp hoard.[/QUOTE]