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Auction: 24004 - British and World Coins and Medals Spring Auction
Lot: 34

(x) Cnut 'the Great' (1016-1035/36), 'Short Cross' Type, Penny, 1029-1035/36, York, Crucan + CNV•T RE•X•, crude diademed and draped bust left with four horizontal folds and three vertical pellets to drapery; lys-tipped sceptre before with pellets either side of sceptre, rev. + CRVCAN ON EOFE, voided short cross with annulet in centre, but pellet (or metal flaw?) in third quarter, within inner circle, 0.94g [14.5grns], 4h (Hildebrand 539, Type H [a variety]; SCBI 2 [Glasgow, Part I], 958 no die link; SCBI 6 [Edinburgh], 681 no die link; SCBI 9 [Oxford], 732 no die link; SCBI 13 [Copenhagen, Part IIIa], 590-604 no die links; SCBI 17 [Midlands], 348 no die link; SCBI 21 [Yorkshire], 196-199 no die links; SCBI 25 [Helsinki], 878 no die link; SCBI 29 [Merseyside], 656-657 no die links; SCBI 45 [Latvia], 155 no die link; SCBI 51 [Estonia], 921-922 no die links; SCBI 52 [Uppsala], 594 no die link; SCBI 60 [Hermitage, Part II], 852-854 no die links; SCBI 66 [Norwegian, Part II], 3488 same dies; North 790; BMC XVI [Coll. nos. 166-169, 177]; Spink 1159), smaller flan, with some verdigris in reverse legends, about very fine

Provenance

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

Dr John Hulett, DNW 144, 21 February 2018, lot 30 - £400

S Mitchell, by private treaty, July 1999



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Sold for
£320

Starting price
£180