Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1310. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (0.93 g, 3h). Helmet type. Lincoln mint; Wulfwine, moneyer. Struck circa 1024-1030. +CNVT REX A, helmeted bust left; scepter to left, cross pattée to right / +PVLFPINE ON LI, voided short cross, limbs united at base by two concentric circles with pellet in center; in each angle, annulet enclosing pellet. Mossop -; cf. SCBI 14 (Copenhagen), 1897-8; cf. BMC 328; North 787 var. (no cross on obv.); SCBC 1158; William Conte Collection (Triton VI, 14 January 2006), lot 1374 (same rev. die). EF, bright surfaces. Very rare variety with cross on obverse.

Hildebrand and Mossop record crosses behind the heads on coins of helmet type for the Lincoln moneyers Brihtric, Godwine, Matathan, Osmund, Swerting and Wulbern.