Illustrated in Ruding’s Annals

Triton XXII, Lot: 1243. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DENMARK. Hardeknud (Knud III, the Hardy). 1035-1042. AR Penny (17mm, 1.04 g, 1h). East Danish standard. Lund mint; Sumarlith, moneyer. Struck circa 1040-1042. + HΛRÐECNVT REX, helmeted and armored bust left / + SV ME RLE Ð ON, voided long cross, with triple-crescent ends. Becker, Coinages, dies H2/184; Hauberg –; Hede 33 var. (obv. type; same rev. die); SCBC 1170; Rogers Ruding, Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and Its Dependencies (London 1840), pl. D, 42 (this coin illustrated). EF, toned.

Ex Allan Williams Collection; Davissons 18 (21 November 2002), lot 228; Gordon V. Doubleday Collection (Glendining’s, 6 October 1987), lot 186; Walter Machado Maish Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 25 March 1918), lot 58; Henry Webb Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 5 July 1895), lot 35; William Lake Price Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 27 May 1880), lot 43; Roderick Mingey Murchison Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 28 May 1866), lot 328; James Dodsley Cuff Collection (Sotheby & Wilkinson, 8 June 1854), lot 593.