Cnut (1016-1035), Short Cross type, Godwine Cas, GODPINE CAS ON PI, lis-headed sceptre, 1.16gm (SCBI Mack 1108, this coin; Smart, Numismatika Meddelanden XXXV, p.439; N. 790; S. 1159). Very fine and very rare (£250-350)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Fitzgerald Collection of Winchester Pennies.

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Ex Argyll and Mack (Pt. I, 172); bt. Spink Sept. 1990.

The use of double names, or bynames, on late Anglo-Saxon coins remains unusual, and the full implications not yet fully reasoned. However, documentary sources suggest that the use of bynames was essentially optional and unstable (cf. Smart, p.451)