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Auction: 1012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 861

Cnut (1016-35), Penny, 0.92g, quatrefoil type, Crewkerne, Winas, crowned, draped bust right within quatrefoil, rev. quatrefoil over long cross, additional pellet in fourth quarter +pi.nas on crvc (N.781; S.1157), pecks on reverse, toned, extremely fine, rare mint Estimate £ 1,500-2,500 Crewkerne is recorded for 17 examples for this issue, with only 29 coins listed for all issues before the Norman Conquest. The obverse style of this coin is distinctive with, unusually, the hair represented by fine pellets within the space below the crown.

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£3,600