Triton XVIII, Lot: 1497. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DENMARK. Svend II Estridsen. 1047-1075. AR Pfennig (16.5mm, 0.52 g). Copying Æthelred II of England. Lund mint(?). ΓICIIIIDΓIDIIN, draped bust left; crozier before / +IICΓΓCCDΓNI, voided short cross; cross pattée and trefoil of pellets in angles. Cf. Hauberg 3; Hauberg Collection 132; Hede III, 47. VF, rough, toned. Rare.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Davissons, 26 May 2010. Ex Davissons 28 (17 December 2009), lot 370.

While Hauberg describes a type with the legend +SPEN+RE+ÐIBRH, both the specimen in his own collection and the one owned by Hede bear nonsensical legends. These crude legends and the presence of a crozier before the bust are both reminiscent of the Phase V Hiberno-Norse coinage, for which this type may have served as a prototype.