Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1333. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Aethelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (1.61 gm). Winchester mint; Ælfsige, moneyer. Intermediate Small cross / CRVX mule, circa 995-997. +ÆDELRED REX ANGLO'X, diademed bust left, no sceptre / +ÆLFSIGE MWO PINT, voided cross, with C R V X in angles. Hildebrand 4055; North 771; SCBC 1150. Toned, good VF. Very rare issue. ($2000) 

This issue is known from only ten mints and was quickly replaced by the subsequent long cross type. See I. Stewart, “Notes on the Intermediate Small Cross and Transitional CRVX Types of Aelthelred II”, in BNJ XXXVII (1968), pp.16-42.