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Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 11/10/2015 4:41 pm I would like to know more about this little coin. I do not have dimensions or weight (it is not my coin) What is written on the coin? Thanks Edited by Petrus 11/10/2015 4:42 pm Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 11/10/2015 5:08 pm I don't really know anything about these coins, but here is an interesting PDF that might help with an ID. http://www.britnumsoc.org/publicati...BNJ_11_5.pdf Report this Post to the Staff
Hibernias Valued Member United States 100 Posts	Posted 11/10/2015 5:38 pm It looks like a silver penny of Canute, who reigned from 995 to 1035. Report this Post to the Staff
Tom Goodheart Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 856 Posts	Posted 11/10/2015 5:44 pm Mmm .. I'm not very up on earlier hammered but to me this looks more like a Scandinavian (Danish) imitation of an arm and sceptre type penny of Harthacnut (1040-1042) .. that is assuming the obverse image is the correct way round (because the legends and portrait appear to be a mirror image of the normal issue and blundered). A bit like this one? http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/...ctID=3881702 (Harthacnut was Cnut's (Canute) second son, who inherited the throne when his half brother Harold died). Legends? The obverse legend looks like nonsense but the reverse looks like an attempt at (something like) EIOFIC-MO-PILLODI .. which again, makes no real sense as far as I can tell. . . Edited by Tom Goodheart 11/10/2015 6:00 pm Report this Post to the Staff
DavidUK Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2624 Posts	Posted 11/10/2015 5:52 pm Cnut lived from 995-1035 perhaps... his reign was 1016-1035. I agree with Hibernias that this looks like a Cnut, however looking in Spinks it shows 4 main types... all differ to what you have. Firstly the only coins pictured of cnut have him facing left, and secondly there is only one reverse with 4 pellets around the cross but they are in a different style. I cannot read the coin... but I think it could be Harold I (1035-1040) Which has a near exact match of the reverse in spinks 1169... the Obverse is similar too but in mirror image (again faces left in my book) The name Cnut appears on this type too... Report this Post to the Staff
DavidUK Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2624 Posts	Posted 11/10/2015 5:56 pm PS I just saw Toms reply... this ruler doesn't appear in my book... the next entry is Edward the confessor in 1942... so there is a gap of 2 years. So what he says is possible but I would still check Spinks 1169 because that looks close to me. Report this Post to the Staff
Tom Goodheart Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 856 Posts	Posted 11/10/2015 6:03 pm Yes. S.1168 or S.1169 in my (2006 edition) Spink.. but the nonsense legends make me think it's an imitation of one of those. . Edited by Tom Goodheart 11/10/2015 6:04 pm Report this Post to the Staff
DavidUK Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2624 Posts	Posted 11/10/2015 6:29 pm Your Spinks is 4 years newer than mine ^^ I am not sure about it either, but I don't know enough about this kind of coin to say. Report this Post to the Staff
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