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Auction: 23107 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 27: British and World Coins, Medals and Tokens Featuring the 'Leja Park' Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 7036

The Owen-Rooke Collection | Cnut 'the Great' (1016-1035/36), 'Short Cross' Type, Penny, 1029/30-1035/36, Wallingford, Æthelwine, diademed and draped bust left, lys-tipped sceptre before, rev. + ÆGELPINE ON PEL, voided short cross, pellet at centre, 1.14g, 9h (SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 730; North 790; Spink 1159), two peck marks to the reverse, otherwise with a pleasing cabinet tone, the portrait handsomely bold, a really pleasingly good very fine to extremely fine in parts, an extremely rare reading, known from only one other coin impounded in the Ashmolean Museum

Provenance
The Owen-Rooke Collection of Oxfordshire Pennies (978-1272)
SCMB, June 1986, E222* - 'VF, attractive' - £150

'Silver Pennies of the Mint of Wallingford', SCMB, March 1958, no. 9240 - nearly EF - £3.15.0

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Estimate

Starting price
£350