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Auction: 24004 - British and World Coins and Medals Spring Auction
Lot: 33

(x) Cnut 'the Great' (1016-1035/36), 'Short Cross' Type, Penny, 1029-1035/36, Dover, Leofwine, + CNVT •RECX •:, diademed and draped bust left with three horizontal folds and four vertical pellets to drapery; sceptre tipped with lys above trefoil of pellets before, rev. + LEOFPINE ON DOF, voided short cross with large pellet-in-annulet in centre within inner circle, 0.91g [14.0grns], 9h (Hildebrand 339, Type H [b variety]; SCBI 6 [Edinburgh], 677 no die link; SCBI 13 [Copenhagen, Part IIIa], 385-386 no die links, [and, 387 same reverse die], 388-392 no die links; SCBI 25 [Helsinki], -; SCBI 36 [Berlin], 757 no die link; SCBI 51 [Estonia], -; SCBI 60 [Hermitage, Part II], 698 no die link; SCBI 66 [Norwegian, Part II], -; North 790; BMC XVI [Coll. 54 no die link]; Spink 1159), minor striking weakness to peripheries at 9 - 11 o'clock and corresponding position on reverse, otherwise lightly toned, a pleasing very fine, scarce

Provenance

The Steve J Green Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins [with his tickets and envelope]

Dr Andrew Wayne, CNG Auction 102, 18 May 2016, lot 1467 - $360

Keith Smalley, Spink 219, 24 September 2013, lot 153 - "even grey tone, a good example of this type, good very fine" - £320


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Sold for
£320

Starting price
£180