Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1365. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Cnut. [As King of Denmark] AR Penny (0.89 gm). 'Thetford'(?) mint; Rulfsige(?), moneyer. Quatrefoil type, circa 1017-1023. +Æ•O• C-NVI ER DENO` EX, crowned bust left in quadrilobe / +R VLFZIGE MO DR, voided long cross on circular quatrefoil with pellet at each apex. North -; SCBC -; Malmer -. Good VF, typical crude execution. ($750) 

From the William J. Conte Collection. 

As is typical with these issues from local dies, the legends are blundered, rendering positive identification of the mint and moneyer uncertain. The obverse legend appears to retain elements of Aethelred’s types, but the ‘CNVI...DENO’ portions of the legend, and portrait style, clearly indicate Cnut (cf. Malmer obverse 738).