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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 275

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Cnut 'the Great' (1016-1035/36), 'Pointed Helmet' Type, Penny, c. 1023-1029, Thetford, Eadwine, + CNVT: EX AGL'OR, crowned and draped bust left, wearing pointed helmet, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + EDPINEE ON ÐEODF: voided short cross in pellet-tipped quatrefoil, 1.04g [16.05grns], 12h (Hildebrand 3495 [Type G]; SCBI 15 [Copenhagen], 3756-3757; North 787; BMC XIV; Spink 1158), minor die flaws, otherwise bright and lustrous, the portrait handsomely bold, a really good very fine, scarce

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1998 - £170

Presumed to be:

'Cnut' (Cambridge) Hoard, 1993

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Sold for
£450

Starting price
£120