Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Penny - William I Profile left type
| Issuer | England |
|---|---|
| Year | 1066-1068 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Penny (924-1158) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | + ǷILLEMV REXI (Translation: King William) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
William's earliest English coinage retained Anglo-Saxon moneyer infrastructure almost entirely intact — a pragmatic decision that kept silver flowing while the new regime consolidated military control. The Profile Left type is among the first issues struck under his authority, produced at multiple English mints by craftsmen who had been doing the same job under Harold II weeks or months before.
North 839 is scarce relative to later William types, compressed as it is into roughly two years before the coinage transitioned again.