Stephen (1135-1154), Eustace Fitzjohn, Penny, York, Phase 7, helmeted knight standing right, holding upright sword, · evstacivs +, rev. cross within quatrefoil, ebor · acit · deft, 1.25g/12h (Allen NC 2016, dies unlisted, cf. 119; cf. Mack 221-2; N 929a; S 1316). Good very fine, centrally struck with a detailed portrait and both legends fully legible, lightly toned, pleasing and extremely rare £10,000-£15,000 Footnote Provenance: Found at Thornton-le-Dale (N Yorkshire) (EMC 2020.0251) by Robert Brown on 15th August 2020, using an XP Deus metal detector on a stubble field. Shortly after arriving and walking twenty paces he got his first signal of the day, at a depth of just two inches in a clump of soil he saw the edge of a silver coin. As Rob explained “ We weren’t sure if it was Saxon or Viking but after putting a picture of it on social media we found out what it was” Eustace Fitzjohn was the Lord of Malton and Knaresborough who served under King Henry I becoming a wealthy landowner through marriage and then supporting the Empress Matilda when she fought a civil war with her cousin Stephen in the period known as the anarchy in England. There is a fortification which dates from this conflict not far from the coins find spot. Eustace became a powerful business magnate, was a Justician of the north and a great monastic patron, founding three religious houses. In 1138, Eustace lost custody of Bamburgh Castle to Stephen and decided to join forces with David I of Scotland fighting with him against Stephen at the battle of the standard that year. In July 1157 Eustace was killed in Flintshire after being ambushed by the Welsh army.
Stephen (1135-1154), Eustace Fitzjohn, Penny, York, Phase 7, helmeted knight standing right, holding upright sword, · evstacivs +, rev. cross within quatrefoil, ebor · acit · deft, 1.25g/12h (Allen NC 2016, dies unlisted, cf. 119; cf. Mack 221-2; N 929a; S 1316). Good very fine, centrally struck with a detailed portrait and both legends fully legible, lightly toned, pleasing and extremely rare £10,000-£15,000 Footnote Provenance: Found at Thornton-le-Dale (N Yorkshire) (EMC 2020.0251) by Robert Brown on 15th August 2020, using an XP Deus metal detector on a stubble field. Shortly after arriving and walking twenty paces he got his first signal of the day, at a depth of just two inches in a clump of soil he saw the edge of a silver coin. As Rob explained “ We weren’t sure if it was Saxon or Viking but after putting a picture of it on social media we found out what it was” Eustace Fitzjohn was the Lord of Malton and Knaresborough who served under King Henry I becoming a wealthy landowner through marriage and then supporting the Empress Matilda when she fought a civil war with her cousin Stephen in the period known as the anarchy in England. There is a fortification which dates from this conflict not far from the coins find spot. Eustace became a powerful business magnate, was a Justician of the north and a great monastic patron, founding three religious houses. In 1138, Eustace lost custody of Bamburgh Castle to Stephen and decided to join forces with David I of Scotland fighting with him against Stephen at the battle of the standard that year. In July 1157 Eustace was killed in Flintshire after being ambushed by the Welsh army.
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