Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1381. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $3200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (0.93 gm). Torksey mint; Thorcetel, moneyer. Helmet type, circa 1024-1030. +CNVT R EX AN, bust left wearing pointed helmet; sceptre surmounted with trefoil before / +DORCETL ON TOR, voided short cross, limbs united at base by two circles with pellet in center; broken annulet enclosing pellet in each angle. North 787; SCBI 15, 3879 (same dies); SCBC 1158. VF, some die rust. Extremely rare mint. ($3000) 

From the William J. Conte Collection. Ex Spink Collection; Norweb Collection, Part 4 (Spink 59, 17 June 1987), lot 1236; Polish Hoard (Glendining's, 14 March 1973), lot 64.