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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 438

NGC AU58 | Cnut 'the Great' (1016-1035/36), 'Quatrefoil' Type, Penny, c. 1017-1023, Salisbury, Ælfræd, + CNVT R•EX ANGL•ORVM : crowned and draped bust left, in quatrefoil, rev. + ÆLFRED ON SEARB, voided long cross in pellet-tipped quatrefoil, pellet at each apex, 1.45g [22.38grns], 9h (Hawkins 212; Lockett I, 724 = SCBI 20 [Mack], 1076 = EMC 1020.1076 this coin; North 781; BMC VIII; S.1157), a fine pedigree befitting a rich cabinet tone, good very fine, and presumed UNIQUE, being the only officially recorded specimen on EMC/SCBI and the earliest known coin struck for this moneyer at Old Sarum, in NGC holder, graded ALMOST UNCIRCULATED 58 (Cert. #8536752-001)

Provenance


Spink, by private treaty [ref. CS(S) 0155], 3 March 1979 - "EF" - £600


Commander Richard Paston Mack, residual collection dispersed privately by Spink, from December 1978 [ref. FE 19297, with his ticket, stating:]


Seaby, by private treaty, 8 October 1956 - £3.3.0


SCMB, March 1956, no. 5556 - 'EF' - £3.5.0


Richard Cyril Lockett - Part I, Glendining, 6-9 June 1955, lot 724 [part] - £15.10.0 [Seaby]


~ Lockett Manuscript [BNJ Digitised Volume 9, p. 27] - "VF" ~


A H Baldwin, by private treaty, Winter 1920 - "VF" - £0.13.6


Presumably:


W Talbot-Ready, Sotheby's, 15-19 November 1920, lot 129 [part] - "...Canute, Penny...Salisbury" - £6.6.0 [Baldwin]



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Estimate
£800 to £1,200

Starting price
£700