Description
Cnut (1016-1035), silver Penny, quatrefoil type, Ipswich Mint, Moneyer Aethelberht, crowned and draped bust left within quatrefoil, legend commences at lower left, +CNVT REX ANEORVM, outer beaded circle surrounding both sides, rev long voided cross with pellet centre and tri-crescent terminals, over quatrefoil with pellet on each cusp, +EĐ LBR IHT O GIP, 0.95g (Sadler II fig.401-402; BMC type VIII; N.781; S.1157).
Lightly toned, good very fine and rare.
This coin struck from dies of the class C “Thetford” 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 Thetford and supplied for use to strike coinage in Ipswich.
