Help Identifying Coin; Canute Cnut Quatrefoil Penny

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I read your coin as "+PV LFPI NON LVND", transcribing it to PVLFPIN ON LVND.

"PVLFPIN" would be translated into modern lettering as "WULFWIN". The now-obsolete letter wynn was imported into the Old English alphabet from Saxon runes, and used to represent "w" sounds, and looked much like a letter "P" when written (or carved onto dies). The easy confusion between wynn and P (and sometimes wynn and Y) was presumably the reason why wynn was eventually replaced with W.

This is also why coins of William the Conqueror usually spell his name something like "PILLEM". That P is actually a wynn.

Slight clarification: the moneyer's name was Wulfwine, with the legend +PV/LFPI/NEO[N]/LVND (I'm not sure of the second N; it looks cut off but the context requires a N here). The first N forms a ligature with the E, which makes the E part hard to see.

My online search found several Cnut (and other) coins naming Wulfwine as moneyer, but none (of Cnut, at least) with this specific legend pattern.