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Auction: 7030 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 72

Hiberno-Norse Phase I, c.995-1020, Sihtric, Penny, 1.03g, copying Quatrefoil type of Cnut, c.1016-1020, Dublin, Feine, crowned bust left within a quatrefoil, +zihtrcre+dyfli legend commencing at seven o´clock, rev. voided long cross over quatrefoil, +feineimodyf (O´S. 25; DF.21: S.6121), peck behind bust, legends weak in places, good very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 3,500-4,500 provenance LaRivere, Spink auction 178, 22 February 2006, lot 7 SNC, February 1988, item H3 Of around twenty known Irish Quatrefoil copies (ten are recorded in SCBI), four are in the name of Sihtric. This is the only known example by the moneyer Feine. The usual moneyer striking in the name of Sihtric was Stegen.

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