Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

Cnut (1016-1035), Penny, Quatrefoil type, Southampton, Leofwine, leofpine on hamt, middle Winchester style, reads anglorv, 1.09g/12h (Blackburn & Lyon p.228; Dolley and van der Meer, NC 1958, pp.125-7 and pl. ix, 3, this coin; SCBI Polish Museums 197, same dies; SCBI Copenhagen 1187-8; BEH 1142; BMC –; N 781; S 1157). Very fine and toned, very rare
£400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Anglo-Saxon Pennies from the Collection of Michael Trenerry.

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Provenance: Sudeley Castle (Gloucestershire) Collection, Sotheby Auction, 8 May 1970, lot 57 [in all likelihood formed before 1850]; F. Elmore Jones Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 May 1971, lot 758 [from R.A. Shuttlewood]; bt Spink February 1988