Edward I pennies, help with ID please

[jelida]

Here are a couple of pennies from the Minster Auction Stu references elsewhere.

The first I think is a class 2, though I am unsure which. It has particularly long side fleurs, wedge shaped contraction marks and reversed ‘N’s and I think that the ‘N’ in ‘DNS’ is double barred.

[jelida]

And the reverse;

[jelida]

And here a penny of Berwick, class Blunt 4a, Withers 5a, pellet on breast and unusual crescent shaped hair. Slightly unusual portrait, any thoughts?

Jerry

[jelida]

Rev

[Coinery]

Hey, Jerry, apologies I’m deep in Germany right now.

The first coin is definitely a 2b. The second is not a series I collect, yet, so not overly familiar without the literature to hand.

Nice wins, though…I had all the Edward Penny lots in my watch list. There was that class 1 coin in a lot, along with a 3/4 fragment of a class 1 with an annulet on the breast…prices were all strong, though, so I just had the 4 Elizabeth coins I was after.

[Coinery]

Just returning to this…I agree with your Berwick classification. Re the portrait, it could be all that extra hair on his forehead, that’s unusual? Otherwise it all looks normal to me, the classic wonky chin, all rather Gollumesque 🙂

[Rob]

On 7/5/2026 at 7:06 PM, jelida said:

And here a penny of Berwick, class Blunt 4a, Withers 5a, pellet on breast and unusual crescent shaped hair. Slightly unusual portrait, any thoughts?

Jerry

'Normal for Berwick'? 

[jelida]

4 hours ago, Coinery said:

Just returning to this…I agree with your Berwick classification. Re the portrait, it could be all that extra hair on his forehead, that’s unusual? Otherwise it all looks normal to me, the classic wonky chin, all rather Gollumesque 🙂

Yes, it’s the hair that caught my eye. I’ve looked at a lot since and not seen one like it. But as Rob says, the Berwick coins are a variable non-conforming bunch so why shouldn’t there be the odd errant die?

Jerry