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Auction 117 19-20 May 2021
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IRELAND, Hiberno-Norse. Sihtric III Olafsson. Circa 995-1036. AR Penny (20mm, 1.47 g, 3h). Phase I coinage. Imitating Long Cross type and in the name of Æthelred II. York mint signature; Hilduf, moneyer. Struck circa 1000-1010. + ÆÐELRED RE+ ΛIGLIΘ, draped bust left; small cross pattée behind neck / + HIL•DVLF M•Θ EΘFR, voided long cross, with pellet at center and triple-crescent ends; pellet in 2nd quarter. O'S Type 3; SCBI 22 (Copenhagen), 30 var. (pellet in 4th quarter); SCBC 6107. Peck on reverse. Iridescent tone. EF. An intriguing coin .
From an American Collection of Hiberno-Norse Pennies.
Mark Blackburn contends that the coins of this moneyer were actually struck at York, using a Hiberno-Norse styled obverse die (see M. Blackburn, "The Dublin Coinage, c. 995-1050" in BNJ 78 (2008), p. 124, and ibid., "Thoughts on imitations of the Anglo-Saxon Coinage" in SCMB 710 (1977), pp. 348–9, Reverse 2).
From an American Collection of Hiberno-Norse Pennies.
Mark Blackburn contends that the coins of this moneyer were actually struck at York, using a Hiberno-Norse styled obverse die (see M. Blackburn, "The Dublin Coinage, c. 995-1050" in BNJ 78 (2008), p. 124, and ibid., "Thoughts on imitations of the Anglo-Saxon Coinage" in SCMB 710 (1977), pp. 348–9, Reverse 2).