Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1374. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (1.00 gm). Lincoln mint; Wulfwine, moneyer. Helmet type, circa 1024-1030. +•CNVT: REX A, bust left wearing pointed helmet; sceptre surmounted with trefoil before, cross behind / +PULFPINE ON LI, voided short cross, limbs united at base by two circles with pellet in center; broken annulet enclosing pellet in each angle. Mossop -; North 787 var. (cross behind head); SCBC 1158 var. (same). Toned EF. Rare variety. ($500) 

From the William J. Conte Collection. 

Hildebrand and Mossop record crosses behind the heads on coins of helmet type for the Lincoln moneyers Brihtric, Godwine, Matathan, Osmund, Swerting and Wulbern.