Ex Pimprez Hoard

445, Lot: 721. Estimate $400. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NORMAN. Henry I. 1100-1135. AR Cut Halfpenny (10.5mm, 0.78 g, 3h). Large Profile/Cross and Annulets type (BMC viii). London mint; Wulf[...], moneyer. Struck circa 1113. Crowned bust left; [scepter before] / Cross pattée [with central annulet]; pellet-in-annulet in quarters. Pimprez 1 (this coin); North 864; SCBC 1269. Much as struck, lightly toned, weak in center with clear legends, small flan split. Very rare type.

Ex Spink 170 (6 October 2004), lot 387; 2002 Pimprez (Oise) Hoard.

This coin has the distinction of being the earliest English coin, as as well as the only cut halfpenny, in the Pimprez Hoard.