Empress Matilda, England, Great Britain.

[Doug]

Watching an old Time Team yesterday Empress Matilda was mentioned in the dig.

A quick Google I see she had coins minted under her own name.

Anybody ever find one?

Although Spinks list her under "Uncertain issues'.

[Dungbeetle]

I found what I thought was a cut half of Matilda, but after seeing the PAS report it turns out to be a Stephen, Watford  penny. Still a nice find and a first for me.

[colin]

there was a hoard of stephen & matilda pennies found near caerphilly in the 80s
doug rare unknown mints from swansea as well,in todays money would have been
worth about £2,000,000 

[Mike]

there was a hoard of stephen & matilda pennies found near caerphilly in the 80s
doug rare unknown mints from swansea as well,in todays money would have been
worth about £2,000,000 

I know the brothers who found them and also seen a few from the hoard that the museum didn't want  .

they had just under £100k in 1980/81  , now that's a serious chunk of change today , back then it was like winning the lottery 

[HAMMERRHOID]

I was at a rally in Longbridge Deverill Wiltshire a few ears back and someone found a Matilda Coin there it was a very good site with loads of Hammereds and Roman coming up perhaps DW could do a rally there 

[probono]

there was a hoard of stephen & matilda pennies found near caerphilly in the 80s
doug rare unknown mints from swansea as well,in todays money would have been
worth about £2,000,000 

I know the brothers who found them and also seen a few from the hoard that the museum didn't want  .

they had just under £100k in 1980/81  , now that's a serious chunk of change today , back then it was like winning the lottery 

Nowadays Cardiff Museum would have had the lot - it was from up the Wenallt somewhere - probably some more along there somewhere

Rare as hens teeth those things though - most of the references in Spink are from that hoard.

[Dale]

I never found one Doug, but iv been lucky enough to of held my mate Matilda Bristol penny, his collection is 50 years older than mine so you can imagine what its like  

[Doug]

Thanks for the views and replies.

 Just goes to show no matter how many years you have been in the hobby there is always something to learn and Matilda coins are out there.

[Dale]

Doug Matilda was striking coins at mints she had control of, Bristol was one of them, Stephen was in power at the time, a civil war for the throne.

I watched a documentary about Matilda on tv, iv managed to track it down on YouTube if your interested its worth a watch, its a little slow but gets interesting a few minutes in  

Youtube............ Killer Queens: Queen Matilda (Empress Matilda)