Cnut Silver Penny
Quatrefoil
Leofing/Lifing on Winchester
1.24g 19.4mm
Spink - 1157
North - 781
Obverse:
CNVT REX ANGLORVM. Crowned bust left within quatrefoil.
Reverse:
LVFINC ON PINCS. Long cross over quatrefoil with pellet apex.
Single peck mark on the reverse and a few light marks otherwise good very fine and a very rare moneyer for Winchester. Harvey traced only three examples, two of which were from this die pair Aa (1017). Just one example appears in any SCBI collection - SCBI 36 State Museum, Berlin - number 662, where it was catalogued as having "no identifiable moneyer’s name".
See:
M. Biddle, Y. Harvey (2012) 'The Winchester Mint and Coins and Related Finds from the Excavations of 1961-71' Winchester Studies 8, Oxford University Press, pg 248-9 - plate 38.
Data sheet
Specific References
Cnut Silver Penny
Quatrefoil
Leofing/Lifing on Winchester
1.24g 19.4mm
Spink - 1157
North - 781
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