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Martin Allen from the Fitzwilliam Museum has kindly identified the coin as from Lincoln, moneyer Paen.[ ]PAEN:ON:L[ ]. EMC 2014.0153.

Many thanks for everyone's contributions.I'll let you know if I get a definitive answer.

Excellent effort TG. For what it's worth, I think :ON: is present and the mint is absent. Stephen's moneyers seemed to like the use of the colon. Paien is a real contender on the basis that I think it's an N before :ON: and he's the only Lincoln moneyer with a name ending in an N but the first bit of his name isn't jumping out at me. Maybe it is Swein and I'm just not seeing it!

I hope it's not regarded as poor form to ask for help with your first post. Humble apologies if it is. I acquired this Stephen penny from eBay a few weeks ago and I've been unable to work out the mint/moneyer. It's a lozenge fleury type minted in Lincoln or Nottingham S 1301. I believe Swein(e) was the only moneyer known at Nottingham and I don't think it's him. Any ideas? By the way, I'm a coin collector from Cornwall having started picking pre '47 coins from change 40 years ago. I'm also a detectorist - I would have loved to have found this coin. I understand it came from a Lincolnshire field. Norman coins are practically unknown from Cornish fields. We preferred turnips and wenches back then!