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LOT 3831
Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Cnut AR Penny. Struck circa 1017-1023. York mint; Osgot, moneyer. Quatrefoil type (BMC viii, Hild. E).
✠ CNVT REX •Λ•NGLOR•, crowned and draped bust to left within quatrefoil / :✠ O:-SGO-T M-O EO, voided long cross with pellet at centre; all over quatrefoil. North 781; SCBC 1157. Very Fine.(1.01gr, 20mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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Anglo-Saxon. Anglo-Viking (Hiberno-Norse Northumbria), Sihtric I Caoch AR Penny. 921-927. Uncertain mint; Albert, moneyer. Sword / Hammer type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £22,750
SIHTR-IC REX above and beneath sword to right / ✠ ALBERT • MOT (BE ligate), upright Thor's hammer, three crescents around. SCBI 4 (Copenhagen) -; North 536; SCBC 1013. 1.06gr, 20mm, 11h.
Extremely Fine. Wavy flan. Toned. Exceedingly rare; apparently the first example in the market.
Found Hagworthingham, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire, UK, on 18 May 2025. Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0245. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme report no.LIN-DD54DB.
EMC note: A previously unrecorded moneyer in Sihtric I's Sword / T type (North 536). Designated by PAS as a find of note and of Regional importance. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Aethelred II AE Styca. 841-849/50. York mint; Monne, moneyer.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
+ EDELRED REX around central cross with pellets in angles / + MOͶNE around central pellet. Cf. SCBI 69 (Abramson), 986; North 188; SCBC 865 and 868. 1.08gr, 13mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Aethelred II AR Penny. Struck circa 991-997. Winceastre (Winchester) mint; Leofweald, moneyer. Crux type (BMC iiia, Hild. C).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
✠ ÆDELRÆD REX ANGLORX (OR ligate), draped bust to left; trefoil-tipped sceptre to left / ✠ LEOFPOLD M-O PIN, voided cross with C-R-V-X in angles. North 770; SCBC 1148. 1.52gr, 21mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Repaired.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
