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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2758007, member: 76181&quot;]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.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.ancients.info/gallery/data/3547/cnut_cng.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t remember where I dug up some of the history.</p><p>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. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cnut was of Danish and Polish descent. His father was Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark (which gave Cnut the patronym, Sweynsson). Cnut&#039;s mother was the daughter of Mieszko I, the first ruler of Poland; her name is thought to have been Świętosława[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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