CNG 94, Lot: 1918. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish Northumbria). Cnut. Circa 900-905. AR Penny (19mm, 1.37 g, 3h). Eoferwic (York) mint. C И V T R E X arranged around inverted patriarchal cross with four pellets; patterns of three pellets, three wedges, and cross pattée within legend / + CVN (cross pattée) NET (four pellets) TI :, short cross pattée; pellet in 1st and 4th quarter. L&S Class IIe; SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 257 (same dies); North 501; SCBC 993. EF, toned.

From the James Fox Collection.