I'm afraid AEtheling hasn't been seen here on the forum since 2006. Last I saw him, over on the CU forum about a year ago, he'd basically given up coin collecting entirely.
But we'll see if we can help. I can say that it's definitely the same coin AEtheling pictured in the article, which derived from a
thread posted on the forum here. I'm no expert on the coins of Stephen - hey, I paid big bucks for a Stephen penny back in 2001, only to have my suspicions confirmed by AEtheling not long after I joined CCF that it was really a "Tealby type" penny of Henry II. You can read the sad story
here.
My main concern is that AEtheling originally posted the article in 2005, a year before he made the post in my thread. But in my thread, he reports that...
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I had what I thought was a defaced die king Stephen penny, that's what the dealer had bought it as and sold it me as. The Fitzwilliam museum soon put me straight and told me it was actually a 12th century German pfennig! Needless to say it went back to the dealer, who sent it back to the dealer he'd bought it off. It had fooled two dealers and me and the dealer i'd bought it from handles alot of Stephen material.
...so I'm hoping for your sake that his mis-attributed "German pfennig" was not in fact this coin.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
Posted 03/19/2012 09:35 am
