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Penny - Civil War Angevins, William of Gloucester
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1150 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | [W]ILLE[LM] (Translation: William) |
| Reverse description | A prominent cross fleurée occupies the centre of the reverse, with a quadrilateral ornament featuring incurved sides and a fleur-de-lis at each of its four extremities superimposed over the cross. This decorative arrangement is characteristic of the baronial penny types struck during the Anarchy. A partial surrounding legend, of which only fragments survive on the irregular flan, references the moneyer's name. The design is executed in hammered relief on an uneven, clipped flan consistent with civil war-era silver pennies. |
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William of Gloucester was an illegitimate son of Henry I and one of the most powerful barons backing Empress Matilda during the civil war known as the Anarchy. His coins were struck not under royal authority but as a regional assertion of control, part of a broader collapse of centralized minting that produced dozens of irregular local issues between roughly 1135 and 1154. The weight of this piece — well below the pre-Conquest standard — reflects neither accident nor incompetence, but the breakdown of any meaningful oversight from the London moneyers.