Description
Canute (1016-35), Penny, Short cross type (c.1029-35/36), Lincoln Mint, moneyer Wulfric, diademed bust left with lis tipped sceptre, legend surrounding, CNVT RECX. Rev, voided short cross, within linear circle and legend surrounding, reads +PVLFRIC ON LIN:., three pellets after mint signature, 0.97g (S.1159; N.790; BMC XVI; SCBI 14 [Copenhagen, Part IIIb] 1930; Mossop, plate LVI, 25, same dies).
A well-toned example, marginally off centre with clear fields. Obverse appears to be weakly struck but nevertheless comprehensive in all the major areas of detail. Reverse, boldly struck with a near perfect mint moneyer combination with the slightest of weakness at 11 o’clock after LIN:. Good very fine with a weak obverse strike.
Very similar to the W. A. Nichols example that went to auction via Baldwin of St James’s on the 12th of June 2019, lot 1035, auction 33, same mint signature with three pellets after, and the same moneyer. The Mossop plate example also appears to be of the same dies, the grainy obverse may have something more to do with that exact die used as opposed to the strike, one can’t be certain.