1 Penny - Henry II Tealby coinage, class D

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.