Henry II Shortcross Penny Henri London 1b1 ex. J. P. Mass

King Henry II silver shortcross penny.

Henri on London. Class 1b1. 

Spink 1344. Mass 273 (this coin).

The coin's provenance is ex. J. P. Mass and includes his original envelope. This coin is from the Wainfleet Hoard, deposited c.1200 and found in 1990 - with the British Museum describing the hoard as:

"...deposited between 1194 and 1205. Consisting of 380 silver pennies and 3 halfpennies it was worth £1, 11 shillings and 8 pence halfpenny, a considerable sum at a time an agricultural worker might earn a penny a day."