Description
Cnut (1016-1035), silver Penny, quatrefoil type, Hertford Mint, Moneyer Lifinc, crowned and draped bust left within quatrefoil, pellet behind bust, legend commences at lower left, +CNVT REX ANGLOR., outer beaded circle surrounding both sides, rev long voided cross with pellet centre and tri-crescent terminals, over quatrefoil with pellet on each cusp, extra pellet in two spandrels, .+LIF INC O HEO RET: 0.90g (BMC type VIII; N.781; S.1157).
Lightly toned, good very fine and rare with the extra pellets.
This coin struck from dies of the late class C “London” style as defined by Blackburn and Lyon in their article “Regional Die-Production in Cnut’s Quatrefoil Issue” chapter 13 of Anglo-Saxon Monetary History. These dies therefore cut at London and supplied for use to strike coinage in Hertford.
