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Auction: 18012 - The Williams Collection Part II, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coins
Lot: 236

(x) Vikings of York (c.895-920), Penny, 1.28g, imitation of Cnut type (c.900-902), name blundered around extended cross pateé, pellets in angles, rev. qventoivici around small cross pateé in inner beaded circle (L&S VII; SCBI 16 (Norweb) 122 this coin; SCBI 4 (Copenhagen) 479 same dies; SCBI 1 (Fitzwilliam) 515 same reverse die; N.524; S.1004), good very fine, rare

provenance
CNG auction 36, 5 December 1995, lot 1442
Norweb, part 1, Spink auction 45, 13 June 1985, lot 37, £620
Lockett, Glendining, 6 June 1955, lot 426, £15 to Baldwin
Lord Grantley, Glendining, 22 March 1944, lot 943
Major Carlyon-Britton, part 1, Sotheby, 17 November 1913, lot 253
Cuerdale, Lancashire, hoard, deposited c.903-910 (1940 inventory 112)

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