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Auction: 20123 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 3 - Part I: The Penny: 'From Actium to the Anarchy' (31BC - AD 1154)
Lot: 1549

Cnut (1016-36), Penny, Short Cross type, Cricklade [?], Wulfheh, 0.78g, 12h, rev. + PVLFEN ON COCLEC [?] (N.790; BMC XVI; S.1159), dark tone, very fine or better, albeit struck with aging dies, very rare

Provenance
The Isladulcie Collection of Medieval Pennies and Fractions
Purchased Quinn, June 2006



Although North records no moneyer named Wulfheh operating at the Cricklade mint, the signature appears to read as 'COCLEC'.

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Estimate

Starting price
£180