272, Lot: 486. Estimate $300. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (19mm, 0.99 g, 6h). Pointed Helmet type (BMC xiv, Hild. G). Lundene (London) mint; Aelegaet, moneyer. Struck circa 1024-1030. + CNVT RECX Λ, bust left, wearing pointed helmet; scepter before / + ÆLFGÆT ON LVNDE, voided short cross, limbs united at base by two concentric circles with pellet in center; in each angle, broken annulet enclosing pellet. SCBI 14 (Copenhagen), 1967-8; BMC -; North 787; SCBC 1158. VF, lightly toned, some green encrustation, flan crack on obverse.