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416, Lot: 576. Estimate $200.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (18.5mm, 1.13 g, 9h). Pointed Helmet type (BMC xiv; Hild. G). Eaxeceastre (Exeter) mint; Sæwine, moneyer. Struck 1024-1030. Bust left, wearing pointed helmet; scepter before / + SÆPINE ΘN E(quadrate C)+(quadrate C)ES :, voided short cross, with pellet at center; in each quarter, broken annulet enclosing a pellet; additional pellet in upper two quarters. Brettell, Exeter 168 (this coin); cf. SCBI 13 (Copenhagen), 475; North 787; SCBC 1158. VF, toned, small flan crack, wavy, peck marks.


From the D.C. Kopen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 57 (4 April 2001), lot 1796; R.P.V. Brettell Collection (Glendining's, 28 October 1970), lot 168; Duke of Argyll Collection.