1211. ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish Northumbria). Cnut. Circa 900-905. AR Penny (18.5mm, 1.33 g, 3h). Class Id. Eoferwic (York) mint. short cross pattée; ⌐ Ƀ ⎍ ˶ at end of limbs, Ḷ ʼ ዞ ส in quarters / ๘ ዞዛʼ©ዢ⌐ዢዞ ⌐ዢ⎍ዢͿ©S, small cross pattée. L&S Class Id; SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 189; cf. BMC 875/870 (obv./rev.); North 495; SCBC 989. EF, toned. Very rare with full mint name reading. ($1500) Ex A.W. Morrison Collection; F. Elmore Jones Collection (12 May 1971), lot 7.
1212. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (22.5mm, 1.48 g, 6h). Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Quatrefoil (HQ1) type (BMC ii). Mercia South-east dies; Eadmund, moneyer. Late period II, circa 920-924. ม ዞ©ዝዮዮዞ©ʽዝ ʼዞҟ, small cross pattée / ዞ©ዝ⍵ ዮዧዝ ⍵!ɭ in two lines; ม ม ม between, quatrefoils above and below. CTCE 165 = SCBI 64 (Grosvenor), 55 var. (no trefoil); BMC –; North 649; SCBC 1087. EF, light ghosting. ($1500)
1213. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (22mm, 1.62 g, 4h). Small cross/HorizontalTrefoil 1 (HT 1) type (BMC i). North Eastern I mint; Nother/Nothhere, moneyer. ®†ĩǧ/Ӳ˶±n ˌĩม, small cross pattée / nɠ†ĩ ȵɠnĩ in two lines; ๘ ๘ !๘ between, trefoils above and below. Blunt, Aethelstan 396; Forum Hoard 144; SCBI 34 (BM), 226 var. (no dash among trefoils); SCBI 30 (American), 344 var. (same); cf. CNG 91, lot 1456 (spelling of moneyer); North 668; SCBC 1089. Good VF, areas of flat strike. Extremely rare moneyer, approximately eight examples known, all but two in public collections (Berlin, London, New York, and Rome; cf. M. Dolley, “A group of tenth century coins found at MontSaint-Michel,” BNJ 49 [1971], p. 5). ($1000) Beyond this issue of Æthelstan, the York moneyer Nother/Nothhere is only known on a unique coin in the name of the Norse king Anlaf Sihtricsson struck after his retaking of the city in 941 (Forum Hoard 385 = M. Dolley, op. cit., p. 4, c), and the later portrait issue of Eadmund (cf. CTCE p. 197, 268). At the same time, there is a portrait coin of Eadred with a moneyer Nother, but with an enigmatic mint signature BI, which may indicate Bedford (cf. CTCE 260 [incorrectly listing the coin under Eadmund, although the illustration of the coin on plate 23 clearly shows the obverse reading Eadgar]). Whether this is the same moneyer, moved to another mint, though, is uncertain.
1214. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Eadmund. 939-946. AR Penny (22mm, 1.37 g, 6h). Small cross/HorizontalTrefoil 1 (HT 1) type (BMC i). Uncertain (Wealingaford [Wallingford]?) mint; Burnweald, moneyer. ๘ e/¥ዝዦ⎍/nዝ / ʽeҟ, small cross pattée / BҲʽɃʏ ¥⌦ዝ ዦ!ɭ in two lines; ม ม ม between, trefoils above and below. CTCE 26; SCBI 34 (BM), 297 var. (arrangement of rev. legend); North 677; SCBC1105. Near EF, faint golden toning. ($1000) 305