Triton XVIII, Lot: 1709. Estimate $400. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish Northumbria). Cnut. Circa 900-905. AR Penny (20mm, 1.36 g, 6h). Class IIe/Cunneti type. Eoferwic (York) mint. + CVИ ·:· ИET ·:·TI, short cross pattée with pellets in first and fourth quarters / ·: C N V T R :· E X :· arranged around inverted patriarchal cross, with four pellets around lower crossbar. L&S IIe; cf. SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 257-344 (for type); cf. BMC 925-984 (for type); North 501; SCBC 993. Good VF, toned.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Davissons, 26 May 2010.