Henry II Silver Tealby Penny 1154-1189AD Bury St Edmunds

Henry II Silver Tealby Penny 1154-1189AD Bury St Edmunds

20mm, 1.45g

During the first few years Henry’s reign the coinage of King Stephen continued to be produced, but in order to restore the public’s confidence in the currency a new standard was introduced, known as the Tealby penny, so named after a hoard found at Tealby, Lincolnshire in 1807. Thirty mints were employed in this initial recoinage by the first Plantagenet king.