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373, Lot: 611. Estimate $100.
Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (17mm, 1.10 g, 6h). Short Cross type (BMC xvi, Hild. H). Lincolne (Lincoln) mint; Matathan, moneyer. Struck circa 1029-1035/6. Diademed bust left; lis-tipped scepter before / + MΛTÐΛN ON LIN :, voided cross, with pellet-in-annulet at center. Mossop pl. LIII, 6 (dies A/b); SCBI 14 (Copenhagen), 1744-7; North 790; SCBC 1159. Near VF, find patina. Matethan is an Old Irish name and unusual on Anglo-Saxon coinage.