Description
Canute (1016-1035), silver Penny, quatrefoil type, London Mint, Moneyer Aelfwine, crowned and draped bust left within quatrefoil, legend commences at lower left, +CNVT REX ANGL, 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 one spandrel, +EL FPI. NE L VND, last two letters ligatured, 0.92g (BMC type VIII; N.781; S.1157).
Unusual with extra pellet on reverse, extremely fine and rare.
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 London.
