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Canute quatrefoil type Penny, London, Wulfnoth, extra pellets variety
Canute (1016-35), silver quatrefoil Penny (c.1017-25), London Mint, Moneyer Wulfnoth, crowned and draped bust left with pellet behind within quatrefoil, legend surrounding commences at lower left, +CIIVT REX ANGLOR:, rev. pellet at centre of voided long cross, over quatrefoil with pellet cusps, three extra pellets in lower segment of left foil, legend surrounding, +PVLFNOD L VND, the ND ligatured, weight 1.04g (N.785; S.1157). Toned good very fine and very rare variety with the extra pellets.
The legends translate as "Canute King of the English" on obverse and on the reverse "Wulfnoth London."
The reason and meaning for the pellet behind the bust and three smaller ones on the reverse remains unknown, and this coin depicting the variety was unknown to H. alexander Parsons in 1917 when he listed all the known varieties of extra letters and symbols on such coinage in his article "Symbols and Double Names on late Anglo-Saxon Coins" in the British Numismatic Journal volume 13, pages 1-74. Perhaps the extra pellets were used to help a moneyer identify his die as London being the most populous mint would have had many in operation at once.
London the Capital of England on the River Thames has been the principal city since Roman times at least. The first Saxon coins that mention London as a minting place are some of the Anglo-Saxon gold Thrymsas as well as the silver Denarii, with the first Saxon Penny to mention London being a coin of Ecgberht. London was occupied by the Danes form 871 and it took until circa 880 for Alfred the Great to finally occupy and fortify the city against further invasion. Edward the Elder annexed London into Wessex in 911 and it resisted a major Viking attack in 1009 under Aethelred the Unready but later submitted to King Swein in 1013. Three years later the people of London accepted Edmund Ironside as King on the death of Aethelred and he resisted an attack by the Danes under Canute. At other uncertain times later in the Anarchy the City remained loyal to Stephen except for a few months when Empress Matilda was admitted in 1141, but she was expelled quickly. In 1215 insurgent Barons captured London and Prince Louis of France visited as their leader, but such episodes did not endure for long, and London as a medieval town has since flourished surviving plague and the Great Fire in 1666, as well as the Blitz in World War II to become the International City of business it has become today.
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