Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 2015. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Kings of All England. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (0.85 gm). Quatrefoil type, circa 1017-1023. Sudbury mint; Mansige, moneyer. Crowned bust left, extending to the edge of flan, within circle / +MANSIE ON S•VDB•, voided long cross on quatrefoil with pellet at each apex. Cf. SCBI Copenhagen 3732 (same obverse die); North 783; SCBC 1157. EF. Very rare obverse variety with bust extending to edge of flan, and circle rather than quadrilobe. ($2000)

From the William J. Conte Collection.

According to Blackburn and Lyon, there are only two known obverse dies with the bust intruding into the legend, and both were produced at the Thetford mint (see M. Blackburn and S. Lyon, "Regional die-production in Cnut's Quatrefoil issue," in Anglo Saxon Monetary History, Leicester UP (1986), pg. 252 and pl. 13.6, Thet.C).