Talk:History of the English penny (1154–1485)

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Coin weights and images
Could we have coin weights and even images in this article - or should it link to them somewhere ? Rod57 (talk) 14:17, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Article says "Henry IV's pennies are divided into heavy coinage (prior to 1412), when the weight of the coins had not been adjusted to reflect the continental price of silver, and the light coinage of 1412-13 when the silver content was reduced to correspond to the continental price of silver" but what were their weights (of sterling silver?) ? Presumably the tealby penny of 1158 (and all silver pennies until 1412 ?) were 24 grains of sterling silver ? Rod57 (talk) 13:58, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm inclined to agree with Rod57, the SCBC has a fairly consistent way of stating how many grains an English penny weighed at each point along its evolution, during the exposition at the beginning of the sections for each monarch. Might those figures be placed here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.34.140.110 (talk) 02:17, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Richard III
It states "only one penny is known which was produced at the London mint." While I was able to figure out that they meant specifically only one London penny is known, it might be better to state it as "only one penny is known -for- the London mint." As there are actually a number of the pieces extant for the other two mints. One might not come away with that impression the way it is currently written, and think that the sole London example is the sole penny for -all- of Richard III. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.34.140.110 (talk) 02:10, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Henry III coin sold at auction for £648,000
A Henry III long cross penny was recently sold at auction for £648,000. The discovery, by a detectorist in Devon, was described as: “... the most valuable single coin find in British history, [and] also the most valuable medieval English coin ever sold at auction.” This article gives quite a bit of useful information: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/24/devon-detectorist-13th-century-gold-coin-sold  148.64.28.209 (talk) 19:06, 24 January 2022 (UTC)