On July 3 Dix, Noonan & Webb’s sold Part 2 of Marvin Lessen’s remarkable North Moors Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet hammered silver. Results were impressive. The total realized including buyers’ premium was $425,366 with a 100% clearance rate of the 526 lots on offer, testifying to the coins’ quality and desirability, let alone rarity of many. Individual prices-realized were commonly well in excess of upper estimate. Top price of $14,209 [£11,400] was achieved by an exceptionally rare, 12 th century, 1.21 g penny of Richard Coeur-de-Lion (S-1346; N-965). The rarity of this piece comes from it having been struck at Lichfield. Star of the show: the exceptionally rare, 1.21 g penny of Richard I (S-1346; N-965) once owned by Charles Francis Adams. In gF it realized $14,209 at Dix Noonan Webb’s July sale of Part 2 of Marvin Lessen’s North Moors Collection. Like all of Richard’s coins struck in England the obverse legend carries the name of his father, HENRICUS....