ENGLISH COINS. Harthacnut (1035-1042), Penny, Jewel Cross type (Spring to Autumn 1036), Athelwine of Bath mint, diademed bust right, to the edge of coin, legend commencing at top, +HARÐACNUT RE, rev cross of four ovals united by twin circles and central pellet, +EGELPINE ON BAÐA, 1.08g (BMC type I; N 809; S 1167). Well toned, flan a little undulating with light central crease and a little light showing through heavily struck beaded border edge, mint name a little blundered in legend, otherwise well struck, good very fine with a pleasing portrait, rare with the King’s full name.
The blundered mint reading is thus far unrecorded in the Sylloges, and we are concluding it is this moneyer, Aegelwine at Bath, as a moneyer of this name is recorded as having worked at this mint at the time of Harthacnut.
Estimate: £3000-4000