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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 239

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Cnut 'the Great' (1016-1035/36), 'Quatrefoil' Type Penny, c. 1017-1023, Cambridge, Ælfwig, + CNVT REX ANGLO : commencing at 8 o'clock, crowned and draped bust left, rev. + ÆLFPIG ON GRANT: voided long cross in pellet-tipped quatrefoil, 0.90g [13.89grns], 2h (Hildebrand -, cf. 1015-1017 [Type E]; K A Jacob [SCMB, February 1984, p. 36 - "ÆLFWINE"] and Sale -; SCBI 1 [Fitzwilliam], 753 same dies; North 781; BMC VIII; Spink 1157), bright with peripheral striking softness, and on a very faintly creased flan, otherwise with a pleasing portrait, a bolder very fine, and evidently an extremely rare reading, unknown to Hildebrand or Jacob

"From the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it is learnt that Cambridge was sacked and burnt by the Danes in 1010. within the period when the Last Small Cross type coins were in issue. Could it have been during the upheaval of the burning of the town and the confusion which followed, that a shortage of dies was experienced, and that dies in the name of Wulfsige were marked with pellets so they could be used by other moneyers and their coins denoted, and all coupled with this available obverse die?"

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Sold for
£380

Starting price
£120