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Auction 19006  24 Sep 2019
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Lot 203

Starting price: 140 GBP
Price realized: 270 GBP
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Cnut (1016-35), Penny, Helmet type, Norwich, Leofric, 1.08g, 12h, + cnvt r glorv:, legend starts at 12 o'clock, draped bust left wearing pointed helmet, sceptre before, rev. + l•e•ofric • on • nor:, voided long cross over double-annulet, pelleted-annulets in angles (Portrait N.IIIc, fig. 6; SCBI 15 (Copenhagen) 3182-83 same dies; Hildebrand type G; BMC XIV; N.787; S.1158), once lightly cleaned with an almost imperceptible flan wave, otherwise very fine, a rare type for moneyer, only two recorded on EMC, both in institutional collections.
Provenance
Bloomsbury Auctions, 16 December 2005, lot 689
Presumed to be from:
(Cambridge) 'Cnut' Hoard, c. 1993
Estimate: £200 - £250
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