Description
Canute (1016-35), Penny, Quatrefoil type (c.1017-1023), Thetford mint, moneyer Sprunt, Thetford mint, early dies, crowned draped bust left within quatrefoil, legend commences at 11 o’clock, +CNVT REX ΛNGLOX. Rev, long voided cross over quatrefoil with pellet cusps and pellet centre, reads ZPRVNT ON DEOD, 20mm, 1.05g (S.1157; N.781; BMC VIII; SCBI 15 [Copenhagen], 3850-52).
Lightly toned with hues of gold evenly distributed around the outer recesses of obverse, compact portrait with the divisions to drapery outlined, legends clear, obverse die partially rusty. Reverse, moneyer mint inscription fluid, with the slightest of clashing in the ZP of moneyers name. Free from peckmarks, good very fine, pleasing.
