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1 Penny - Henry II Tealby coinage, class D
| Issuer | Crown of England |
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| Year | 1167-1170 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1158-1970) |
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| Obverse description | Facing crowned bust of King Henry II rendered in the crude, stylised manner characteristic of the Tealby coinage. The king is depicted wearing a toothed or crenellated crown, with deeply cut, somewhat abstract facial features including wide eyes and a short beard indicated by pellet or wedge devices. A sceptre or cross-headed staff appears to the left of the bust. The surrounding field is irregular, and a partial Latin legend runs around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Tealby coinage takes its name from a hoard of over 5,000 pennies found in Lincolnshire in 1807, which gave numismatists their first systematic look at Henry II's early currency. Class D falls within a reform sequence driven not by aesthetics but by chronic complaints about coin quality — the moneyers of this period were routinely accused of clipping and debasing, culminating in the Assize of Clarendon in 1166 and a mass trial of moneyers that resulted in mutilations and dismissals across dozens of English mints.
At least thirty mints were active during the Tealby series. By Class D, that number was already contracting.