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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1040

Cnut 'the Great' (1016-1035/36), 'Pointed Helmet' Type, Penny, c. 1023-1029, Ipswich, Eadric, CNVT: EX A'NGL: draped bust left, wearing pointed helmet, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + EDRIC ON GIPESPICC: voided short cross, limbs united at base by two circles, pellet in centre, broken annulet in each angle enclosing a pellet, 1.00g [15.43grns], 9h (Hildebrand 938-939 [Type G]; SCBI 13 [Copenhagen], 990; Doubleday 200 same dies; North 787; BMC XIV; Spink 1158), lightly toned and residually lustrous, of excellent metal, a pleasing and bolder very fine, a scarcer type for this provincial mint

Provenance

The Mike Wordingham Collection of English Coins



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£700

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