Silver, 0.62 grams, 19.02 mm. Circa 1107 AD. BMC VI. Obverse: +h EN[RIC REX], crowned bust three quarters right holding sceptre in right hand and pointing with left; in field three stars. Reverse: +SAP[ ] SAL, Sawulf at Salisbury mint, around cross pattee over saltire with four annulets at the end of each limb; in each angle a star. Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University as: EMC 2008.0412. N. 862; BMC. vi; S. 1267. Extremely fine and unique with this moneyer. Found Stowmarket, Suffolk. The three stars that appear on the type 6 pennies are said to represent the comets associated with Norman victories, also they could represent the two comets that appeared in the night sky’s the year Henry I was born.

Dr Martin Allen of the Fitzwilliam Museum writes: “Henry I type 6 cut halfpenny, Salisbury, moneyer Saw(ulf?). A previously unrecorded moneyer for the Salisbury mint in the reign of Henry I.”