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Auction: 25004 - British and World Coins and Medals
Lot: 18

Harthacnut, in the name of Cnut (1040-1042), 'Arm and Sceptre' Type, Penny, Bedford, Swet, + CNVT RE, diademed and draped bust left, trefoil-tipped sceptre in left hand, rev. ZPOET ON BE+FV, central pellet within pellet-tipped quadrilateral over voided short cross, 0.829g, 10h (DNW, June 2014, lot 313* same dies; North 799; BMC II; S.1169), minor stress marks from conservation, otherwise full, struck details very fine, evidently very rare with only two of this moneyer and mint combination listed on EMC

Provenance

Found at Stondon (Bedfordshire), 26 August 2024

~ Recorded with the British Museum, ref. NARC-B20E1A ~

~ Recorded with EMC, ref. 2024.0284 [GVSPOET ON BE] ~



Swet is a documented moneyer for Bedford from the voided Shortcross coinage struck in reign of Cnut (1016-1035/6), however his technical proficiency appears to have lapsed in the intervening decade, another of his Arm and Sceptre dies reading SPOT ON BEDEFO++ (SCBI 40, 1572), the initial cross replacing an R in that case. It is likely rather than a coin reading to a moneyer 'Guswet', it is the assumption of the present cataloguer that the initial cross simply and mistakenly replaces the letter D on the present coin.

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£1,100

Starting price
£700