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Ex Winstanley Collection – Purvey Plate Coin

209, Lot: 485. Estimate $300.
Sold for $875. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PLANTAGENET. Richard II. 1377-1399. AR Penny (19mm, 1.00 g, 6h). Local dies, group B. York mint. Struck circa 1391-1396. +RICΛRDVS RЄX ΛnGLЄ, crowned facing bust; double saltire stops, pellets above shoulders, cross on breast / +CIVITAS ЄBORΛCI, long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters, quatrefoil in center. Purvey 44 (die 2, pl. VII, 4 – this coin); North 1330; SCBC 1692. VF, toned, die break on obverse. Broad flan. Rare.


Ex E.J. Winstanley Collection.

This coin was struck during the tenancy of Archbishop Thomas Arundel (1388-1396). Potter suggests that the large issues from local dies at York occurred during a 'lean' period at London, from 1391-1396. During this time either an insufficient quantity of dies or no dies were provided from London, necessitating the production of local dies. The relative chronology of the phases of coinage he saw at York supports this theory.