Very Rare Huntingdon Harthacnut

436, Lot: 1031. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harthacnut. 1035-1042. AR Penny (18mm, 0.95 g, 9h). Arm and Scepter type (BMC ii, Hild. B). Huntingdon mint; Wulfwine, moneyer. Struck 1040-1042. Diademed bust left, holding scepter / + PVLFPIN•E ON HVN, quadrilateral, with pellet in center and angles, over voided short cross. W.C. Boyd, “Some Unpublished Varieties of Anglo-Saxon Coins,” in NC 1900, pl. 268, 11 (this coin); SCBI 40 (Stockholm), 1627 var. (rev. legend); SCBI 42 (Southeastern), 1121 (same dies); North 811; SCBC 1168. VF, toned, edge chip, thin flan crack. Very rare.

From the Londinium Collection. Ex William C. Boyd Collection (Baldwin’s 42, 26 September 2005), lot 842 (since cleaned); Sotheby’s (6 April 1899), lot 255.