Triton XXII, Lot: 1364. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish Northumbria). Cnut & Siefred (Sigeferth). Circa 900. AR Penny (19mm, 1.56 g, 5h). ‘Mirabile fecit’ type. York mint. + IIIR·ΛBII·Λ IECT, cross pattée; pellets in first and fourth quarters / :+: EB ·: RA ·: E ·: E ·: C, patriarchal cross, four pellets around upper crossbar. L&Sclass VIc; SCBI 29 (Merseyside) 396 (same dies); BMC 1058-9; North 512; SCBC 1000. EF, toned, slight doubling, faint trace of red wax.

From the Londinium Collection. Possibly from the 1840 Cuerdale Hoard.