Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1409. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Cnut. [Posthumous issue] AR Penny (1.16 gm). Jewel cross type, 1036-1037. Cambridge mint; Osget, moneyer. +CNVT• RECX A:, diademed bust left / +OSGET ON GRANTEB, jewel cross. North 797; SCBC 1160. Good VF, deep toning. ($1500) 

From the William J. Conte Collection; ex Captain Peter Arnot Collection, Buckland, Dix & Wood 11 (21 March 1995), lot 245.

This is the only known penny of this type from the Cambridge mint. Struck by Cnut’s widow, Ælgifu, during the reign of their son Harthacnut.