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Auction 16019 22 March 2016
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Viking Kingdom of York, c.895-920, St Peter, late phase I, Swordless, c.905-10, Penny, 1.19g., SCI PETRI, in single line with I above and R below the T, large cross above, trefoil in each angle, key below, rev. +I.IA CFC, small cross (N.551 var.; S.1006 var.), good very fine, an extremely rare variety of the St Peter coinage of York.
Recorded EMC 2001.041 and BNJ Coin Register 2002, 172Found five miles east of York, 2002Same dies as a specimen in the National Museum Copenhagen, found in the Bossall (Yorks.) hoard deposited c.925 (Numismatic Chronicle 1983, plate 23, no. N1).The latest of Swordless St Peter pennies have the inscription in a single line rather than set in two lines as normally found. Symbols such as a cross and key, as here, as well as floral devices and what look like, in one case, a candelabrum also appear. The reverse inscription, in common with the later coins, has become so blundered that the original literate form of EBORACE CIVITAS is all but lost.
Estimate: £1,500.00 - £1,800.00
Recorded EMC 2001.041 and BNJ Coin Register 2002, 172Found five miles east of York, 2002Same dies as a specimen in the National Museum Copenhagen, found in the Bossall (Yorks.) hoard deposited c.925 (Numismatic Chronicle 1983, plate 23, no. N1).The latest of Swordless St Peter pennies have the inscription in a single line rather than set in two lines as normally found. Symbols such as a cross and key, as here, as well as floral devices and what look like, in one case, a candelabrum also appear. The reverse inscription, in common with the later coins, has become so blundered that the original literate form of EBORACE CIVITAS is all but lost.
Estimate: £1,500.00 - £1,800.00