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lawp79 New Member United Kingdom 2 Posts	Posted 07/01/2014 12:06 pm Hi all, could you please help me ID this, I think it's a coin but I'm not sure what it is. Any info would be great. Report this Post to the Staff

philadelphian Pillar of the Community United States 3253 Posts	Posted 07/01/2014 12:14 pm Welcome! It's a replica of a penny of William the Conqueror made by the company Westair Reproductions Ltd. http://dorchesters.com/william-i-th...-bonnet-type Report this Post to the Staff
lawp79 New Member United Kingdom 2 Posts	Posted 07/01/2014 12:16 pm Awesome, many thanks. Report this Post to the Staff
peter1234 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1351 Posts	Posted 07/01/2014 12:36 pm It should have a WR on it somewhere. If it was real it would be a valuable coin. Maybe you could do a picture of the reverse. Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 07/01/2014 3:38 pm Here a (rather bad) drawing of the real one. And this tekst I found in one of my books (OCR applied) The rarity of the various types can be scarcely more fairly stated than by giving the humbers of each contained in the Brit. Mus. (234) 19. The legend of the reverse always consists of the name of the moneyer with ON, or very rarely OF, and the name of the place of mintage; the Saxon p is used for W, and the dipthong AE is most frequently expressed by IE; for A or V we have two II not always inclining towards each other and sometimes in a wrong direction. I or II at the end of the king's name do not indicate numerals but probably more or less of the letter A for Angliae. The coins of these reigns must have been struck in a collar, for they are uniformly round, of the same size, and a pile of them is as perfectly cylindrical as one composed of coins of the present day. (copied from the book : "THE SILVER COINS OF ENGLAND ARRANGED AND DESCRIBED WITH REMARKS ON BRITISH MONEY PREVIOUS TO THE SAXON DYNASTIES. BY EDWARD HAWKINS F. R. S. F. A. S. &c. KEEPER OF ANTIQUITIES IN BRITISH MUSBUM.") Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16845 Posts	Posted 07/01/2014 5:44 pm Quote: It should have a WR on it somewhere. It does indeed have WRL stamped on it - below and left of the king's chin. It's the same basic type as this one, which has the WRL replica stamp in the same place. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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