Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 38 26 Sep 2019
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Denmark, Harold Bluetooth Gormson (959-985), attributed to the Jelling or Hedeby mint silver half bracteates, cross type, wt. 0.31 gms. (Hauberg 2 var.), fine to very fine, rare
Harold Bluetooth, the grandfather of Cnut (the Great), converted to Christianity in 956 and famously had his parents Gorm the Old and Thyra posthumously converted to his new faith and reburied in a new church he had built next to their traditional pagan burial mounds at the royal site of Jelling. The achievements of Harald and Gorm are recorded on two elaborately-carved runestones at the site. Jelling is one possible mint for this coinage, the other being the large commercial town of Hedeby further down the Jutland peninsula.
(200-250 GBP)
Harold Bluetooth, the grandfather of Cnut (the Great), converted to Christianity in 956 and famously had his parents Gorm the Old and Thyra posthumously converted to his new faith and reburied in a new church he had built next to their traditional pagan burial mounds at the royal site of Jelling. The achievements of Harald and Gorm are recorded on two elaborately-carved runestones at the site. Jelling is one possible mint for this coinage, the other being the large commercial town of Hedeby further down the Jutland peninsula.
(200-250 GBP)