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<p>[QUOTE="TheRed, post: 4940785, member: 87080"]Great post [USER=109923]@John Conduitt[/USER] it was a really enjoyable read. Your coins are also first rate. The penny of Cnut is fantastic, an am amazing example.</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting fact regarding the voided long cross coinage of Henry III is that it was detested at first, as [USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER] so wonderfully posted about. Besides the blanching, who wouldn't hate that, the initial coins of class 1a had drastically new legends. The mint and moneyer were removed from the reverse of the coin, a break with tradition going back to Anglo-Saxon times. As can be seen on the example below (not my coin, way too costly) the obverse reads HENRICVS REX and the reverse reads ANG/LIE/TER/CI </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1187654[/ATTACH] </p><p>Mint and moneyer listed on the penny was an assurance of quality, and the absence of said information on class 1a pennies damaged the congruence people had in the new penny. The coins proved so highly unpopular that first the mint (class 1b) and then the moneyer (class 2) were restored to the reverse legend. Here is my example of class 1b from London, newly acquired.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1187657[/ATTACH] </p><p>My favorite penny of all is class 1c from the new coinage of Edward I. A close second is his new coinage struck in Ireland. Here are my two best examples.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1187660[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1187661[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TheRed, post: 4940785, member: 87080"]Great post [USER=109923]@John Conduitt[/USER] it was a really enjoyable read. Your coins are also first rate. The penny of Cnut is fantastic, an am amazing example. An interesting fact regarding the voided long cross coinage of Henry III is that it was detested at first, as [USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER] so wonderfully posted about. Besides the blanching, who wouldn't hate that, the initial coins of class 1a had drastically new legends. The mint and moneyer were removed from the reverse of the coin, a break with tradition going back to Anglo-Saxon times. As can be seen on the example below (not my coin, way too costly) the obverse reads HENRICVS REX and the reverse reads ANG/LIE/TER/CI [ATTACH=full]1187654[/ATTACH] Mint and moneyer listed on the penny was an assurance of quality, and the absence of said information on class 1a pennies damaged the congruence people had in the new penny. The coins proved so highly unpopular that first the mint (class 1b) and then the moneyer (class 2) were restored to the reverse legend. Here is my example of class 1b from London, newly acquired. [ATTACH=full]1187657[/ATTACH] My favorite penny of all is class 1c from the new coinage of Edward I. A close second is his new coinage struck in Ireland. Here are my two best examples. [ATTACH=full]1187660[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1187661[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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