The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 41, October 10, 2004, Article 7

MEDIEVAL COIN HOARD FOUND IN FRANCE

  Arthur Shippee pointed out this note on a coin hoard
  being offered by Spink:   The Pimprez Hoard

  "This remarkable hoard, deposited c.1140, was discovered
  by chance in the grounds of a house in the small town of
  Pimprez (Oise), near Beauvais, 50 kilometers north of Paris,
  in 2002."

  "The Pimprez hoard consists of 569 silver coins and 12
  silver ingots, comprising 446 English pennies, 374 of Henry I
  (1100-1135) and 72 of Stephen (1135-1154) and 123
  continental pennies and bracteates, mainly from the mints of
  Metz, Liege, Maastricht, Treves and Zurich. There were no
  royal French coins.

  The ingots are unusual in a hoard of this period. They vary in
  weight from 9.95 to 223.26 grams and amount, in total, to
  rather over half the bullion value of the hoard.

  The English pennies are struck in excellent silver and show
  little sign of wear from circulation, though many, particularly
  the crude coins of Henry I's last issue, type XV (1125-35),
  are of the typically poor  workmanship of the 12th Century.
  The earliest coin is a London mint cut halfpenny of Henry I's
  excessively rare type VIII, struck around 1113, but the
  glory of the hoard is the remarkable group of 24 pennies of
  Henry I's very rare type XI, the famous and distinctive
  "double inscription" issue, dating from around 1115."

  Full Stroy

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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