Triton XX, Lot: 1511. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish Northumbria). Cnut. Circa 900-905. AR Penny (20mm, 1.24 g, 3h). Group VII/Imitating Quentovic mint. Uncertain mint. + IRTENNVC (T inverted), cross pattée, pellet in quarters / + QVEMTOVICI, cross pattée. Cf. SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 409; cf. BMC 1011–4; North 524; SCBC 1004 (this coin illustrated). Good VF, toned. Extremely rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 80 (8 May 2013), lot 2175; Dr. B. Bird Collection (Glendinings, 20 November 1974), lot 77.

The Standard Catalogue of British Coins (50th edition) plate coin.