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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 418

Cnut (1016-1035/36), 'Cross in Quatrefoil' Type, Penny, 1016-1023, Taunton, Eadric, + CNVT REX ANGLOR.- high crowned and draped bust left, in quatrefoil, rev. + EDRIC [O] TANTV, voided long cross in pellet-tipped quatrefoil, pellet at each apex, 0.96g [14.8grns], 9h (Bergen Museum [1837], no. 451; Marshall SANHS, 1849], pp. 87-92, no. 15; FEJ 813 = Ridgemount [1989], 85 same dies; Symonds [1973], 33 same dies; SCBI 24 [West Country], 615; North 781; BMC VIII; Spink 1157), some peck marks to reverse, otherwise bright but pleasantly toned, a most pleasingly bold very fine to almost extremely fine, an excessively rare mint

Provenance

CNG Mail Bid Sale 47, 16 September 1998, lot 2373 - £340

SCMB, June 1977, E792* - "extremely rare mint, nearly EF" - £550


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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£350