Walking Back In Time From 1600 To Antiquity By Decades (V3.0)

This Noven was issued by Castile and Leon (Spain) over the course of 1252 to 1258 AD. It was minted at Burgos. The obv legend is MONETA CASTELLE with that B mintmark while the rev legend is ET LEGIONIS. I have attributed it as C&C 1106.

It seems that my participation in the thread is close to the end:))

But I still have something to show. There are 3 similar coins, I've made photos especially to post here.

Golden Horde puls - Nusrat al-din Berke Khan (Qrim mint)1257-1266


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces45740.html

I'm bummed to hear that your participation will be dropping off @grin. It has been so nice to have you joining us for these past months!

I have a lot of Henry III coins for the 1250s. He reigned from 1216-1272, but every coin I have is from the 1250s. Presumably, he struck most of his coins just after his reforms of 1247, when he brought in the long cross coinage to stop clipping.

I don't know if we've seen many cut coins yet, but we're in that era now - before Edward I introduced the farthing in 1279, you had to cut a penny up if you wanted change.

Henry III Long Cross Cut Halfpenny, Class 5c1, 1253-1256

Canterbury. Silver, 17mm, 0.6g. Facing bust, rounded chin, two hair curls as crescent with central pellet, pellet at end of crown, holding sceptre; HE(NRICVS REX) with III to left of sceptre. Voided long cross, 3 pellets in angles; (CAN) / TER / ION / (ON) (Moneyer Ion) (S 1369). It may actually be class 5a2 or 5a3 - being cut and worn it's hard to tell - but that would still date it to 1251-3.

I'll continue with Henry III. This is from the Brussels (Belgium) Hoard of 145,000 coins, including 64,000 continental and 81,000 British pennies, abandoned around 1267. It was found in 1908 in a bricked-up vault by workmen pulling down a tavern near Brussels Cathedral.

The hoard was auctioned in 1909. The continental coins were sold separately, and the buyer melted most of them down. The British coins were bought by Baldwin's of London. Some were subsequently stolen, and many were melted down by Baldwin's in the 1920s to pay wages, so only three quarters still exist. What remained was sold by Baldwin's in 2012 and 2013.

Henry III Class 3d1 Long Cross Penny, 1250

London. Silver, 19mm, 1.5g. Crowned square face with pointed beard, no sceptre, initial mark star 4, round eyes formed by a pellet in an annulet, pellet between curls, wedge-shaped foot on R; hENRICVS REX: III. Voided long cross; NIC OLE ONL VND (moneyer Nicole of London) (S 1364). The hoard was used to reclassify some of Henry III's pennies, apparently including this one, which if I'm right, changed from Class 3c to Class 3d1. If it's 3d1, it's dated to 1250, while 3c is dated 1249-50.

Thank you. Yes Henry III hoards are both plentiful and huge - many are the biggest ever found. It's quite likely any Henry III coin is from one of these hoards.

The Henry III posthumous issue I showed earlier was known by just one example before the Colchester Hoard was found - which contained 1916 of them. So even if you have one without a provenance, you know where it came from.

This one also comes from the Colchester Hoard. It's not easy to spot the difference with the one above, except that this time Henry's holding a sceptre and the legend starts further left.

Henry III Class 5a3 Long Cross Penny, 1251-1253

London. Silver, 17mm, 1.4g. King holds a sceptre with III to left; no initial mark; pellet-in-crescent hair; small crescents below hair; round pellet-in-circle eyes; pellet each end of crown; rounded chin; X with straight and S-shaped limbs; HENRICVS REX III. HEN-RI O-N LV-NDE (moneyer Henri of London) (S 1367).

Well, 13 coins so far is pretty good I think. You are right that they have come in dribs and drabs though. With that in mind, how about a last call for this decade? Starting tomorrow we can drop back to the decade of the 1240s.