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Auction: 22005 - British and World Coins - Spring Auction
Lot: 40

Cnut (1016-1035/36), 'Quatrefoil' Type, Penny, 1016-1023, "Winchester Dies", Shaftesbury, Ælfwine, crowned and draped bust left, inside quatrefoil, rev. + ÆLFPINE ON S[E]FTE voided long cross atop quatrefoil, 1.31g, 1h (SCBI 15, 3351; North 781; BMC VIII, and no. 497; Spink 1157), a large fragment with a ragged edge, otherwise struck details superb for series, extremely fine, rare

Provenance
Baldwin, by private treaty, 1975 - £45 [ex. 245]



This coin struck from dies of the 'mid-Winchester' style as defined by Blackburn and Lyon in their article “Regional Die-Production in Cnut’s Quatrefoil Issue” (Chapter 13) of Anglo-Saxon Monetary History

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Sold for
£220

Starting price
£100