Triton XVIII, Lot: 1710. Estimate $500. 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, 1.27 g, 9h). Class IIe/Cunneti type. Eoferwic (York) mint. + CIV ·:· INT ·:· T ·:· I, short cross pattée with pellets in second and third quarters / ·:· C N V T R E X arranged around inverted patriarchal cross, with four pellets around lower crossbar. L&S IIe; SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 312 (same dies); cf. BMC 925-984 (for type); North 501; SCBC 993. EF, toned.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen 102 (12 September 2009), lot 548.