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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4683955, member: 110504&quot;]Having recently spent too much time trashing the aesthetic appeal of earlier medievals generally, it dawned on me to provide something in the way of a qualificaion.&nbsp; To my surprise, it looks as if no one here has posted a helmet-type penny of Cnut.&nbsp; This one, while improbably cheap, took literal years to find.&nbsp; (Actually had another one, conspicuously cleaned, which fell prey to a rent emergency.&nbsp; Ultimately, I was glad of the opportunity --make that, &#039;goad&#039;-- to upgrade it.)</p><p>...I still haven&#039;t figured out how to put uploaded pics anywhere I want to, so they will have to be at the end of this.&nbsp; Given which, the convergence of strike, wear and exquisitely understated peck marks (and, why lie, even the pellet in the broach) is as good as I will need for the foreseeable future.</p><p>The legends go like this.</p><p>Obv.&nbsp; CNVT RECX A:</p><p>Rev.&nbsp; PYNSTAN ON LUN&nbsp; (Wynstan, moneyer in London).</p><p>(North 787 (1024-30); Style II (p. 169, w/ minor variants in the legend); p. 175 for the moneyer.)</p><p>...From here, for anything from AEthelred II on, moneyers with Scandinavian names have always been a selling point, along with mints from the Danelaw or farther north.&nbsp; In this instance, we can dispense with that, on both counts.&nbsp; North lists Wynstan as a London moneyer for every major issue of Cnut, along with Harold I and Harthacnut. ...Meanwhile, the contemporaneous Viking presence in London is eloquently demonstrated by this tomb slab from the London Museum, found &quot;just outside St. Paul&#039;s&quot;:</p><p><a href="https://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/61240/rectangular-grave-slab-11th-century" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/61240/rectangular-grave-slab-11th-century" rel="nofollow">https://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/61240/rectangular-grave-slab-11th-century[ATTACH=full]1152741[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1152742[/ATTACH] </a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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