CNG 96, Lot: 1400. Estimate $750. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish Northumbria). Cnut. Circa 900-905. AR Penny (20mm, 1.24 g, 9h). Class IIe/Cunnetti type. Eoferwic (York) mint. Inverted patriarchal cross, with four pellets around lower crossbar; C И V T at end of limbs, with R(trefiol) E (trefoil)X and quatrefoil in angles / + CVN (quatrefoil): NET (quatrefoil) TI (quatrefoil), short cross pattée; pellet in 1st and 4th quarters. L&S Class IIe; SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 265 var. (same rev. die; pellets in obv. legend); BMC 927 var. (pellets in legend); North 501; SCBC 993. EF, attractively toned.

From the Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex St. James 4 (8 May 2006), lot 31.