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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 422

Cnut (1016-1035/36), 'Pointed Helmet' Type, Penny, 1023-1029, Bruton, 'Effi' [Ælfhelm (?)], + CVNETI REX ANI, draped bust left, wearing pointed helmet, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + EFFI ON BRIVTIO : [sic], voided short cross, pellet-in-annulet in angles, 1.04g [15.8grns], 12h [m.m. at 11h] (BEH, type G; North 787; BMC XIV; Spink 1158), a probable Scandinavian imitation in the style of the prohibitively rare Somerset mint, with peck marks and crimping resulting in brightness, nevertheless struck details bolder than very fine, presumed UNIQUE, with this coin the sole documented example since 1908

Provenance

R C Lockett, Part I, Glendining, 6-9 June 1955, lot 732* - "very fine and an extremely rare moneyer and mint - £26.0.0 [Spink for "White Rose"]

R T Cassal, Glendining, 3-4 December 1924, lot 621 - "bust wearing mitre, fine and very rare?, an unpublished moneyer" - £3.0.0
SNC, March-April 1917, no. 50053 - "new and unpublished moneyer, Ex the Evans coll., very fine" - £1.15.0

SNC, November-December 1916, no. 47067 - "a new moneyer for this mint, RR, From the Evans Collection, very fine - £2.0.0

SNC, December 1911, no. 94511 - very fine, Evans (Duplicates) collection - £2.10.0

SNC, September 1910, no. 78896 - very fine - £2.10.0

Sir John Evans, collection part-purchased by Spink, 1908

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