1 Penny - Henry III Long Cross type; class 3b

Features

Issuer England (United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies)
King Henry III (1216-1272)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 1249
Value 1 Penny (1⁄240)
Currency Pound sterling (1158-1970)
Composition Silver
Weight 1.5 g
Diameter 18 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
84082
References Sp# 1363,
Emma Howard (editor); 2021. Standard Catalogue of British Coins : Coins of England & the United Kingdom Pre-Decimal Issues (56th edition). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
And 2 more volumes.
North# 987
Jeffrey J. North; 1963. English Hammered Coinage / Volume 1. Early Anglo-Saxon : Henry III c. 650-1272. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
And 1 more volumes.

Obverse

Legend around crowned facing portrait without sceptre.

Note: neat round bust, beard is three pellets either side of a large central pellet

Script: Latin (uncial)

Lettering: hЄNRICVS RЄX | III

Lettering (regular font): HЄNRICVS RЄX | III

Translation: King Henry the Third

Reverse

Legend around voided long cross with trefoil of pellets in each angle.

Script: Latin (uncial)

Lettering: NIC OLЄ ONL VND

Lettering (regular font): NIC OLЄ ONL VND

Translation: Nicole of London

Comments

House of Plantagenet (1154-1399), Henry III (1216-1272), Long cross coinage (1247-79), Phase II (Provincial), Class 3b.


Mintmark 3: thicker 6-pointed star, struck at London and provincial mints, c.1249. For more details visit 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.

For further detail, please read this article published in the British Numismatic Journal
The Long Cross Coinage of Henry III and Edward I by L. A. Lawrence, F.S.A.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1249)  Bristol mint
ND (1249)  Bury St Edmunds mint
ND (1249)  Canterbury mint
ND (1249)  Carlisle mint
ND (1249)  Exeter mint
ND (1249)  Gloucester mint
ND (1249)  Hereford mint
ND (1249)  Ilchester mint
ND (1249)  Lincoln mint
ND (1249)  London mint
ND (1249)  Newcastle mint
ND (1249)  Northampton mint
ND (1249)  Norwich mint
ND (1249)  Oxford mint
ND (1249)  Shrewsbury mint
ND (1249)  Wallingford mint
ND (1249)  Wilton mint
ND (1249)  Winchester mint
ND (1249)  York mint

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