CNG 96, Lot: 1399. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish Northumbria). Cnut. Circa 900-905. AR Penny (18mm, 1.25 g, 6h). Class Ir/Ebraice Civitas type. Eoferwic (York) mint. Plain cross; C И V T at end of limbs, with R: E X and quatrefoil in angles / + EB (quatrefoil) IΛI (quatrefoil) CEC (quatrefoil) IV (quatrefoil), small cross pattée; pellet in second and third quarters. L&S Class Ir; SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 211 var. (same rev. die; trefoil after R on obv.); BMC 876 var. (same rev. die; same); North 495; SCBC 989. Near EF, toned, slight wave in flan. Rare with plain cross on obverse.

From the Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex St. James 2 (11 May 2005), lot 17.