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LANCASTER. Henry IV. 1399-1413. AR Halfpenny (13mm, 0.66 g, 10h). Heavy coinage. London (Tower) mint. Struck 1399-1412. Crowned facing bust / Long cross pattée with voided quatrefoil at center; triple pellets in quarters. Withers III type 3a; North 1352; SCBC 1723. Weak in part. Richly toned. VF. Rare.
From the Arthur M. Fitts III Collection. Ex Baldwin 42 (26 September 2005) lot 929; J.G. Murdoch (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 31 March 1903), lot 315 (part of); H. Montagu (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 11 May 1896), lot 483 (part of); W. Brice Collection; G. Wakeford Collection; 1868 Highbury Hoard.
The Highbury Hoard, discovered 1868, was a notable but unfortunately unrecorded hoard of heavy coinage of Henry IV together with a number of low-grade silver pieces from Venice. (Thompson, J. Inventory of British Coin Hoards, p. xlvi)
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