Extremely Rare Warminster Penny

CNG 106, Lot: 1099. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (17mm, 1.16 g, 12h). Short Cross type (BMC xvi, Hild. H). Wereminster (Warminster) mint; Winegod, moneyer. Struck circa 1029-1035/6. + CNV T RECX, diademed bust left; lis-tipped scepter before / + PINEGOD ON PORI, voided short cross with pellet-in-annulet in center. SCBI 15 (Copenhagen), 4212 (same dies); North 790; SCBC 1159. Good VF, slight crimp. Extremely rare.

Ex Lord Stewartby Collection (Part I, Spink 234, 22 March 2016), 264, purchased from Baldwin’s, June 2002.

The rarest mint in Wiltshire in the Anglo-Saxon period, Warminster was the site of a royal manor from the ninth century onwards.