Extremely Rare Mint at Langport

CNG 85, Lot: 1495. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (19mm, 0.87 g, 6h). Quatrefoil type (BMC viii, Hild. E). Langport mint; Ælfsige, moneyer. Struck circa 1017-1023. + CNVT REX ΛNGLOR, crowned bust left in quatrefoil / + ÆLFSIG O LΛGP, voided long cross with triple-crescent ends and pellet at center, over quatrefoil. Blackburn & Lyon Taun. B style; SCBI 13 (Copenhagen), 1294 (same rev. die); Hild. -; BMC -; North 781; SCBC 1157. Near VF, flan crack, weak strike on obverse, peck marks. Extremely rare mint.

From the Marie Karlsson Collection.

H.B.A. Petersson (“Coins and weights. Late Anglo-Saxon pennies and mints, c. 973-1066” in: K. Jonsson, ed., Studies in Late Anglo-Saxon Coinage [Stockholm, 1990]) records 14 coins from this mint for Cnut, 10 of which are of the Quatrefoil type.