Class VIIIc. London -

Henry III.  AR Penny (18mm, 1.33 g, 3h). Class VIIIc. London mint; Nicole, moneyer. Struck circa 1244-1247. hЄnRICVS R ЄX, crowned head facing, holding scepter in right hand / + NIChOLЄ ON LVN, short cross; quatrefoils in each quarter. SCBI 56 (Mass), 2163 (same rev. die); North 981/3; SCBC 1357c.

 

BNJ References:

 

J. J. North,		‘A Re-Examination of Classes 7 and 8 of the Short Cross Coinage’, 58 (1988), 25-39, 2 pls.
F. Elmore Jones,		‘The Last Short-Cross issue of Henry III (Class 8), 25 (1945-48), 286-90