Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1405. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (1.09 gm). Watchet mint; Godcild, moneyer. Short cross type, circa 1030-1036. +CNVT R •ECX, diademed bust left; sceptre surmounted by lis before / +GODCILD ON PECED, voided short cross, in center, circle enclosing pellet. M.A.S. Blackburn, “The Mint of Watchet”, in BNJ XLIV (1974), 24; North 790; SCBC 1159. Toned, good VF. Extremely rare mint. ($2500)

From the William J. Conte Collection. Ex Norweb Collection Part I (Spink Auction 45, 13 June 1985), lot 81; Symonds Collection (Glendining's, 26-27 September 1973), lot 43; Thomas Bliss Collection (Sotheby's, 22-24 March 1916), lot 110 (part).