Auction Results: DNW sells some rare coins found by detectorists – 3 November
Dix Noonan Webb auction includes detecting finds
The Coins and Historical Medals auction Dix Noonan Webb auction on 3 November included a number of detecting finds, some of which have been unearthed within the last few months.
One of the stars of the show was Lot 28, an Eustace Fitzjohn penny of York which sold for £24,000, (pre sale estimate of £10,000 – £15,000). The coin was found by a detectorist based in Leeds, which happens to be my home town.
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Lot 3, Catuvellauni gold stater
Cunobelin, linear type S. 281, good VF, rare, found in Essex, pre-sale estimate £1,000-£1,200. Sold for £1,600
Lot 10, Offa penny of Canterbury
light coinage, no portrait, moneyer Headberht, S. 904, two edge splits, otherwise VF, very rare, found in West Sussex, £800-£1,000. Sold for £1,200
Lot 12, Eadred penny
with portrait, moneyer Nothel. S. 1115, flan slightly wavy, otherwise nearly VF and rare, found in Essex, £800-£1,000. Sold for £1,100
Lot 22, William I penny of Winchester
bonnet type, moneyer Leofing, S. 1251, crack in centre and wavy flan, otherwise good VF, found in Hampshire, £600-800. Sold for £600
Lot 27, Stephen and Matilda penny of York
two figure type, the reverse with ornaments in the legend, S. 1315, VF, very rare, found in Lincolnshire, £10,000-£15,000. Sold for £10,000
Lot 28, Eustace Fitzjohn penny of York
armed knight on obverse, cross within quatrefoil on reverse, S. 1316, good VF with fully legible legends, lightly toned, attractive and extremely rare, found in North Yorkshire, £10,000-£15,000. Sold for £24,000
Lot 29, Henry III round halfpenny of London
class VII, moneyer Elis, S. 1357D, slightly buckled, otherwise fully legible on a round flan, about VF, excessively rare and far fewer known than the round halfpennies of Henry I, found in North Norfolk, £4,000-£6,000. Sold for £5,500
Lot 571, Carausius denarius
probably London, lion with thunderbolt in mouth on reverse, RSR in exergue, RIC 591, large edge chip, otherwise good VF, found in Dorset, £1,000-£1,500. Sold for £3,200
Lot 572, Carausius denarius
London, altar on reverse inscribed with MVL TIS XX IMP, RSR below, RIC 595, minute flan crack, otherwise nearly EF with some residual bloom, very attractive and extremely rare, found in Hampshire, £4,000-£5,000. Sold for £7,500
Lot 613, Merovingian pseudo-imperial gold tremissis
circa AD 540-60, uncertain mint (probably Burgundy), VF, the obverse die of unusually refined style for the type, extremely rare, found in Oxfordshire, £1,200-£1,500. Sold for £2,400