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Auction 19006  24 Sep 2019
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Lot 208

Starting price: 130 GBP
Price realized: 250 GBP
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Cnut (1016-35), Penny, Helmet type, York, Frithkollr, 1.13g, 11h, + cnvt r|ex ang, legend starts at 12 o'clock, draped bust left wearing pointed helmet, sceptre before, rev. + friðcol m-o eof:, voided long cross over double-annulet, pelleted-annulets in angles, additional pellet in second and third quarter (Portrait N. IVc, fig. 6; SCBI 13 (Copenhagen) 651/648 same dies; Hildebrand type G; BMC XIV; N.787; S.1158), darkly toned, otherwise very fine or near so.
Provenance
David Lay Auctioneers, Cheshire, 19 August 2008, lot 89
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The general appearance of this piece is consistent with that of a hoard find. Interestingly the Halton Moor (Lancaster) find of 1815 records three examples of Frithkollr with this reverse mint signature (eof:), although Taylor Combe who documented the hoard noted that only half was available for study, for the remainder had already been dispersed amongst the local populus.
Estimate: £180 - £220
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