1 Penny - Henry III 1250-1251

Weight

1.40 g

Diameter

19 mm

Thickness

NA

Material

Silver

Shape

Round (irregular)

Edge Type

NA

Technique

Hammered

Front design

Legend around crowned facing portrait, holding sceptre.

Back design

Legend around voided long cross, with pellet at centre and three pellets in angles.

Year of Minting

1250-1251

King

Henry III (1216-1272)

Mint location

NA

Mint mark

NA

Orientation

NA

Inscriptions

Obverse: hENRICVS ˚ REX : III’ Reverse: RIC ARD ONL VND

Context

Long cross coinage (1247-79), Phase III (Post-provincial), Class 4b. Mintmark 5 (8 pointed star), struck at the London and Canterbury mints, 1250-51. For more detail, please see Rod Blunt's website here . By the middle of Henry's reign the Short Cross coinage in circulation was in a poor state and, in 1247, a new coinage was ordered with the cross on the reverse extended to the edge of the coin in an attempt to prevent clipping. The earliest coins (1a) showed the names of neither the mint nor the moneyer. Class 1b includes the name of the mint and from Class 2 onwards all coins show the name of both the mint and the moneyer.

Rarity

Ultra rare

Coin type

Standard circulation

In circulation

No

Demonetized

Yes

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