Auction win Cnut

So this one has been on my list of historical figures to get for some time. I could never find one I liked enough or had enough detail. I really like the portrait on this one and it is in very nice condition. It will make a great addition to my historical figures collection.

Please post your coins of Cnut or the hammered coins. I know they are out there let us see them.

From wikipedia:


"King Cnut the Great[2] (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki;[3] c. 995[4] – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute, was King of Denmark, England, and Norway, together often referred to as the Anglo-Scandinavian or North Sea Empire. After his death, the deaths of his heirs within a decade, and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, his legacy was mostly forgotten. The medieval historian Norman Cantor said he was "the most effective king in Anglo-Saxon history", though he was Danish and not a Briton or Anglo-Saxon.[5]

Cnut is popularly invoked in the context of the legend of King Canute and the waves, which usually represents him as a deluded monarch believing he has supernatural powers, contrary to the original legend which portrays a wise king.

Cnut's father was Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark (which gave Cnut the patronym Sweynsson, Old Norse Sveinsson). The identity of his mother is uncertain, although medieval tradition makes her a daughter of Mieszko I.[1] As a Danish prince, Cnut won the throne of England in 1016 in the wake of centuries of Viking activity in northwestern Europe. His accession to the Danish throne in 1018 brought the crowns of England and Denmark together. Cnut maintained his power by uniting Danes and English under cultural bonds of wealth and custom, as well as by sheer brutality. After a decade of conflict with opponents in Scandinavia, Cnut claimed the crown of Norway in Trondheim in 1028. The Swedish city Sigtuna was held by Cnut.[6] He had coins struck there that called him king, but there is no narrative record of his occupation.

The kingship of England lent the Danes an important link to the maritime zone between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, where Cnut, like his father before him, had a strong interest and wielded much influence among the Norse–Gaels.[7] Cnut's possession of England's dioceses and the continental Diocese of Denmark—with a claim laid upon it by the Holy Roman Empire's Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen—was a source of great leverage within the Catholic Church, gaining notable concessions from Pope Benedict VIII and his successor John XIX, such as one on the price of the pallium of his bishops, though they still had to travel to obtain the pallium. Cnut attempted to gain concessions on the tolls his people had to pay on the way to Rome from other magnates of medieval Christendom, at the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor. After his 1026 victory against Norway and Sweden, and on his way to Rome for this coronation, Cnut, in a letter written for the benefit of his subjects, which only now exists in two twelfth-century Latin versions, deemed himself "King of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes".[8] The Anglo-Saxon kings used the title "king of the English". Cnut was ealles Engla landes cyning—"king of all England.""

ENGLAND. CANTERBURY, Royal mint, Cnut (1016-35), Silver Penny, 0.91g, 18mm, Short Cross type moneyer Wulfwig. North 790

Obv: Diademed bust left with lis sceptre, +CNVT - RECX:

Rev: Short voided cross, central annulet enclosing pellet, +PVLFPIGONCANT

Good Very Fine, slightly creased and pecked

 

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Same type as yours. Nice toning doesn't come across well in the pic. I'd love to get a pointed helmet type to match. They're really attractive coins, much sharper than later hammered coins.

 

oh wow, those are some nice looking coins guys! i don't have anything from western europe in the 11th century.

 

Stolen and long gone, but Cnut is a coin worth owning. I see yours has the classic pecks marks. This was mine. It has pecks in the upper left quadrant of the obverse.



I don't remember where I dug up some of the history.
ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (19mm, 1.15 g, 9h). Pointed Helmet type (BMC xiv, Hild. G). Winchester mint; Beorhtweald, moneyer. Struck circa 1024-1030. + CNVT: REX ΛNG, bust left, wearing pointed helmet; scepter before / + BRIHTPOLD ON PIN, voided short cross, limbs united at base by two concentric circles with pellet in center; in each angle, broken annulet enclosing pellet. SCBI 50 (Hermitage), 774 (same dies); Hild. 3719; BMC -; North 787; SCBC 1158. Good VF, bright surfaces, a few peck marks.


Cnut the Great (Old English: Cnūt; Old Norse: Knūtr inn rīki; Danish: Knud den Store or Knud II[1] c. 985 or 995 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute or Knut, was a Viking king of Denmark (Cnut II), England, Norway and parts of Sweden. As a statesman, with notable successes in politics and the military, and the importance of his legacy – if now obscure – Cnut seems to have been one of the greatest figures of medieval Europe. Until recently though, after the death of his heirs within a decade of his own and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, his achievements were largely lost to history.


Cnut was of Danish and Polish descent. His father was Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark (which gave Cnut the patronym, Sweynsson). Cnut's mother was the daughter of Mieszko I, the first ruler of Poland; her name is thought to have been Świętosława

 

I did have a small collection of Cnut pennies in my English silver coinage collection before I shifted across to ancients. I sadly parted with them all some time ago. I look back on them occasionally and wish I had never found out about ancients.

Short Cross

Obv:- CNVT REX, Diademed bust left holding sceptre
Rev:- LIFINC ON LINCO, Short cross voided; in centre, a circle enclosing a pellet
Minted in Lincoln (LINCO) by moneyer Lifinc (LIFINC) A.D. 1029-1035/6


Obv:- CNVT RECX, Diademed bust left holding sceptre
Rev:- FERDEIN ON EOR, Short cross voided; in centre, a circle enclosing a pellet
Minted in York (EOR) by moneyer Farthein (FERDEIN) A.D. 1029-1035/6


Helmet Type

Obv:- CNVT R-EX ANG, Helmeted bust left holding sceptre
Rev:- AEDELRINE MO EOR, Short cross voided, limbs united at base by two circles, in centre a pellet; in each angle a broken annulet enclosing a pellet
Minted in York (EOR) by moneyer Aethelwine (AEDELRINE) A.D. 1024-1030


Quatrefoil Type
Obv:- CNVT REX ANGLORVM, Crowned bust left within quatrefoil
Rev:- CNIHT MO GRAI, Quatrefoil with pellet at apex of each cusp, long cross voided, each limb terminating in three crescents
Minted in Cambridge (GRAI) by moneyer Cnit (CNIHT) A.D. 1017-1023


Martin

 

Wow that was a superb collection Martin.

 

I am sorry to hear that your was stolen. It is a very nice example.

 

Nice portrait

 

It was probably looted back when it was in circulation. I guess it was meant to be looted again.

 

I like the quatrafoil type! Very nice. No Cnuts for me - come to think of it, none from the 11th century... (yet - one is in the mail)

 

Cnut, short cross type
Moneyer: Brunman
Mint: London

 

Wonderful, would love one of him.

 

Fantastic coin! A very enviable acquisition.

 

Terrific examples everyone!!

 

Nailed it Dude! Nice!

Still on my List of Lists!

 

Cool score Orfew!

And everyone else!

 

Gotta' have a Cnut!

North Sea Empire
Stamford, Anglia
Cnut the Great (r. AD 1016 -1035)
AR Penny 18.2 mm x 1.00 grams (c. AD 1021-1035)
Obverse: The helmeted bust of Cnut left holding a scepter with 3 lobes.+ CNVT REX A
Reverse: Short cross with 4 pellets and 2 extra opposing pellets. + THVRSTAN ON STA

 

Saw this thread and thought, "C-Nut." And "What happened to 'A-Nut' and 'B-Nut?'"
I learn something new every time I click here. Thanks, guys.

 

Great coins everyone. Here's my contribution.
Obv. +CNVT RE CX
Rev. LVFPINE ON DOFR for Leofpine at Dover

 

How bout P-nut?