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Canute (1016-35), Silver Penny, quatrefoil type (c.1017-23), Ipswich Mint, Moneyer Edric. Crowned and draped bust left within quatrefoil, legend and outer beaded border surrounding, legend surrounding commences at top, +CNVT REX ANGLORX, last two letter ligatured, rev. pellet at centre of voided long cross, over quatrefoil with pellet cusps, legend and outer beaded border surrounding, +ED RIC M?O GIP, weight 1.03g (B.M.C. type VIII; N.781; S.1157). Attractive dark tone, one small rim chip, otherwise extremely fine, a popular East Anglian mint. Value $750 - UP
Despite Canute being essentially a Viking King from overseas, the coinages of England continued in a similar vein to those of Aethelred II, in that the types changed every six years, meaning there are three main types for this reign, of which the quatrefoil type was the first. According to North there were up to 74 mints in operation with perhaps four other enigmatic places that remain uncertain. Ipswich operated with up to sixteen moneyers in this reign which is about seven times less than London for instance and twelve less than the regional monetary center of Thetford in East Anglia.
This Quatrefoil type coin is struck from the regional die cutting centre of Thetford of type A late style, as defined by Mark Blackburn and Stewart Lyon in their article "Regional Die-Production in Cnut's Quatrefoil Issue" a chapter in "Anglo-Saxon Monetary History" edited by M. A. D. Blackburn published 1986.
The obverse Latin legend translates as "Canute King of the English" and the reverse as "Edric Moneyer of Ipswich.".
Ex Captain Peter Arnot, Dix Noonan and Webb, 21st March 1995, lot 192. Purchased from Spink and Son Ltd, 24th January 2001.
Canute (1016-35), Silver Penny, quatrefoil type (c.1017-23), Ipswich Mint, Moneyer Edric. Crowned and draped bust left within quatrefoil, legend and outer beaded border surrounding, legend surrounding commences at top, +CNVT REX ANGLORX, last two letter ligatured, rev. pellet at centre of voided long cross, over quatrefoil with pellet cusps, legend and outer beaded border surrounding, +ED RIC M?O GIP, weight 1.03g (B.M.C. type VIII; N.781; S.1157). Attractive dark tone, one small rim chip, otherwise extremely fine, a popular East Anglian mint. Value $750 - UP
Despite Canute being essentially a Viking King from overseas, the coinages of England continued in a similar vein to those of Aethelred II, in that the types changed every six years, meaning there are three main types for this reign, of which the quatrefoil type was the first. According to North there were up to 74 mints in operation with perhaps four other enigmatic places that remain uncertain. Ipswich operated with up to sixteen moneyers in this reign which is about seven times less than London for instance and twelve less than the regional monetary center of Thetford in East Anglia.
This Quatrefoil type coin is struck from the regional die cutting centre of Thetford of type A late style, as defined by Mark Blackburn and Stewart Lyon in their article "Regional Die-Production in Cnut's Quatrefoil Issue" a chapter in "Anglo-Saxon Monetary History" edited by M. A. D. Blackburn published 1986.
The obverse Latin legend translates as "Canute King of the English" and the reverse as "Edric Moneyer of Ipswich.".
Ex Captain Peter Arnot, Dix Noonan and Webb, 21st March 1995, lot 192. Purchased from Spink and Son Ltd, 24th January 2001.