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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 2757931, member: 74968&quot;]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.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your coins of Cnut or the hammered coins. I know they are out there let us see them.</p><p><br /></p><p>From wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;King Cnut the Great</b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-unnecessarycitation-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-unnecessarycitation-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse" rel="nofollow">Old Norse</a>: <i>Knútr inn ríki</i>;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circa" rel="nofollow">c.</a> 995<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-ArchontologyCanute-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-ArchontologyCanute-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> – 12 November 1035), also known as <b>Canute</b>, was King of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark" rel="nofollow">Denmark</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" rel="nofollow">England</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" rel="nofollow">Norway</a>, together often referred to as the Anglo-Scandinavian or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Empire" rel="nofollow">North Sea Empire</a>. After his death, the deaths of his heirs within a decade, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England" rel="nofollow">Norman conquest of England</a> in 1066, his legacy was mostly forgotten. The medieval historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cantor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cantor" rel="nofollow">Norman Cantor</a> said he was &quot;the most effective king in Anglo-Saxon history&quot;, though he was Danish and not a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Britons" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Britons" rel="nofollow">Briton</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" rel="nofollow">Anglo-Saxon</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Cnut is popularly invoked in the context of the legend of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_waves" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_waves" rel="nofollow">King Canute and the waves</a></i>, which usually represents him as a deluded monarch believing he has supernatural powers, contrary to the original legend which portrays a wise king.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cnut&#039;s father was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweyn_Forkbeard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweyn_Forkbeard" rel="nofollow">Sweyn Forkbeard</a>, King of Denmark (which gave Cnut the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronym" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronym" rel="nofollow">patronym</a> <i>Sweynsson</i>, Old Norse <i>Sveinsson</i>). The identity of his mother is uncertain, although medieval tradition makes her a daughter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieszko_I" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieszko_I" rel="nofollow">Mieszko I</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-mother-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-mother-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> As a Danish prince, Cnut won the throne of England in 1016 in the wake of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age#Northwestern_Europe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age#Northwestern_Europe" rel="nofollow">centuries of Viking activity in northwestern Europe</a>. 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia" rel="nofollow">Scandinavia</a>, Cnut claimed the crown of Norway in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trondheim" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trondheim" rel="nofollow">Trondheim</a> in 1028. The Swedish city <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigtuna" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigtuna" rel="nofollow">Sigtuna</a> was held by Cnut.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> He had coins struck there that called him king, but there is no narrative record of his occupation.</p><p><br /></p><p>The kingship of England lent the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danes_(Germanic_tribe)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danes_(Germanic_tribe)" rel="nofollow">Danes</a> an important link to the maritime zone between the islands of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain" rel="nofollow">Great Britain</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland" rel="nofollow">Ireland</a>, where Cnut, like his father before him, had a strong interest and wielded much influence among the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse%E2%80%93Gaels" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse%E2%80%93Gaels" rel="nofollow">Norse–Gaels</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> Cnut&#039;s possession of England&#039;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese" rel="nofollow">dioceses</a> and the continental Diocese of Denmark—with a claim laid upon it by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" rel="nofollow">Holy Roman Empire</a>&#039;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archdiocese_of_Hamburg-Bremen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archdiocese_of_Hamburg-Bremen" rel="nofollow">Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen</a>—was a source of great leverage within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church#Middle_Ages" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church#Middle_Ages" rel="nofollow">Catholic Church</a>, gaining notable concessions from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_VIII" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_VIII" rel="nofollow">Pope Benedict VIII</a> and his successor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_XIX" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_XIX" rel="nofollow">John XIX</a>, such as one on the price of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallium" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallium" rel="nofollow">pallium</a> 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome" rel="nofollow">Rome</a> from other magnates of medieval <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christendom" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christendom" rel="nofollow">Christendom</a>, at the coronation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Emperor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Emperor" rel="nofollow">Holy Roman Emperor</a>. 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 &quot;King of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes&quot;.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-Lawson.2C_Cnut.2C_p._97-8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#cite_note-Lawson.2C_Cnut.2C_p._97-8" rel="nofollow">[8]</a> The Anglo-Saxon kings used the title &quot;king of the English&quot;. Cnut was <i>ealles Engla landes cyning</i>—&quot;king of all England.&quot;&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>ENGLAND. CANTERBURY, Royal mint, Cnut (1016-35), Silver Penny, 0.91g, 18mm, Short Cross type moneyer Wulfwig. North 790</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: Diademed bust left with lis sceptre, +CNVT - RECX:</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev: Short voided cross, central annulet enclosing pellet, +PVLFPIGONCANT</p><p><br /></p><p>Good Very Fine, slightly creased and pecked</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]633127[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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