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L.E. Bruun Collection Part III 28-30 Oct 2025
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Gorgeous and Excessively Rare Watchet Penny
GREAT BRITAIN. Penny, ND (1024-30). Watchet Mint. Cnut. NGC MS-62.
Pointed Helmet (BMC xiv) type; S-1158; North-787; Hild - (type G); SCBI Cop-3919 (plate coin); Blackburn-23b (this coin); Bruun-969. Weight: 1.12 gms. Moneyer: Gotcild. Superbly struck, lustrous and with a gorgeous multicolored toning. Excessively rare. For a period of 35 years Godcild seems to have been the only moneyer at the Somerset town of Watchet and the present coin is struck from the only known Pointed Helmet dies from this mint.
From the L. E. Bruun Collection.
Estimate: 2000 - 3000
GREAT BRITAIN. Penny, ND (1024-30). Watchet Mint. Cnut. NGC MS-62.
Pointed Helmet (BMC xiv) type; S-1158; North-787; Hild - (type G); SCBI Cop-3919 (plate coin); Blackburn-23b (this coin); Bruun-969. Weight: 1.12 gms. Moneyer: Gotcild. Superbly struck, lustrous and with a gorgeous multicolored toning. Excessively rare. For a period of 35 years Godcild seems to have been the only moneyer at the Somerset town of Watchet and the present coin is struck from the only known Pointed Helmet dies from this mint.
From the L. E. Bruun Collection.
Estimate: 2000 - 3000