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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 421

Cnut (1016-1035/36), 'Pointed Helmet' Type, Penny, 1023-1029, Cambridge, Ada, + CNVT RECX AN, draped bust left, wearing pointed helmet, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + ADA ON GRANTE : voided short cross, pellet-in-annulet in angles, 1.13g [17.4grns], 9h (BEH 1006-1008; SCBI 13 [Copenhagen], 10681069; North 787; BMC XIV; Spink 1158), some softness to parts of the legend, otherwise with a pleasing cabinet toned, about extremely fine, a beautiful penny and very rare issue for Cambridge

Provenance

SNC, July 1988, no. 4641* - 'about EF, rare' - £320 [erratum -listed as Canterbury]

G V Doubleday, Glendining, 6 October 1987, lot 43* - "good very fine, rare, nine specimens noted by Jacob; ex E. W. Rashleigh (300) and W C Wells Collections"

W C Wells, collection purchased by Baldwin, c. 1949

E Rashleigh, Sotheby's, 21 June 1909, lot 300 [part] - "in very fine state"

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£250