Canute Penny, Quatrefoil type, Chester, moneyer Wulsi

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JM35500

Canute Penny, Quatrefoil type, Chester, moneyer Wulsi

Name: Canute Penny, Quatrefoil type, Chester, moneyer Wulsi
Brand: Sovereign Rarities Live
SKU: JM35500
Price: 800.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

£800

Canute (1016-35),silver Penny, Quatrefoil type (c.1017-25), Chester Mint, Moneyer Wulfsi, crowned and draped bust left within quatrefoil, legend surrounding commences at upper left, +CNVT REX ANGLOR,rev.pellet at centre of voided long cross, over quatrefoil with pellet cusps, legend surrounding, +PVLSII ON LEI, weight 1.03g (cf. SCBI 13 [Copenhagen], 1472; BMC type VIII; N.781; S.1157).Toned, some contact marks, the portrait pleasing and distinct, a pleasing very fine rare.

The Latin legends translate as "Canute King of the English" on obverse and on the reverse "Wulfsi of Chester."

This coin is of the local Chester style within its later phase, as recorded by Blackburn and Lyon in their article "Regional Die Production in Cnut's Quatrefoil Issue." See pages 234-35. The later dies, characteristically have smaller face in the portraits, at times tall and thin, in other cases squatter and or more compressed on the drapery.