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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 5134032, member: 12789&quot;][ATTACH=full]1204667[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably one of the earliest known double struck Lincoln pennies, from the reign of Henry III - the planchet stuck to the obverse die and the moneyer struck the coin again maybe an effort to free it from the obverse die.&nbsp; The coin was minted by Ion in Lincoln.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1204670[/ATTACH]</p><p>A late example of a Henry III penny from the Colchester hoard that was found in 1902.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1204673[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another penny, minted in London from early in the reign of Edward I that came from the Colchester hoard of 1902.&nbsp; The great majority of the coins in the Colchester hoard were coins from late in the reign of Henry III and early in the reign of Edward I, suggesting that the hoard was buried during the 1270s before the great recoinage in England beginning in 1280.&nbsp; These latter two coins were sold in little booklets in the early 1970s by Spink &amp; Sons.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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