| Spink > Auction 24004 | Auction date: 4 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 29 Price realized: 850 GBP (Approx. 1,068 USD / 992 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: (x) Cnut 'the Great' (1016-1035/36), "Transitional or Early Issue", 'Quatrefoil' Type, Penny, c. 1016/1017, Exeter, Wulfsige, + CNVT REX A•NGLO, crowned narrow "early" bust left within well defined quatrefoil, single band to crown with sole trefoil above, two vertical and four horizontal folds to drapery, rev. + PVLFSIE ON EXC, long cross voided on well defined quatrefoil with pellet at apex of each cusp, each limb terminating in three crescents, 1.47g [22.7grns], 6h (Hildebrand Type E [a.5 variety]; SCBI 7 [Copenhagen, Part II], -; SCBI 25 [Helsinki], -; SCBI 51 [Estonian], 533 no die links; SCBI 60 [Hermitage, Part II], -; SCBI 66 [Norwegian, Part II], -; Brettell 171 = SCBI 68 [Lyons], 937 same dies; Lockett 3757; North 781; BMC VIII [Coll. -]; Spink 1157), the late Stewart Lyon posited that the bust variety was an early portrait issue, and thus this coin evidently struck on a 'Heavy' Aethelred II Last Small Cross planchet, some die clogging, crimping and peck marks, with resultant lamination flawing on obverse at 4 o'clock, struck details approaching approaching very fine, an evidently extremely rare moneyer for this type and mint. Provenance, The Steve J Green Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins [with his tickets and envelope], Duplicates from a Well-Known Anglo-Saxon Collector, CNG eAuction 475, 26 August 2020, lot 757 - $275, Spink Numismatic Circular CXIX, No. 2, May 2011, HS4502 - "peck marked, almost VF" - £340, N Mills, by private treaty with Spink [ref. SPK29969/10], 6 November 2010, , Lyon has identified this die as an early portrait, the coin has been struck on a large flan and is of very heavy weight so it is extremely likely that it was struck early in Cnut's reign (c. late 1016 or early 1017). Wulfsige struck the last three types of Aethelred II's reign at Exeter but none of the subsequent types of Cnut. Estimate: £200 - £240 |  |
