VIKING COINS - HIBERNO-NORSE - PHASE III - LONG CROSS AND HANDS COINAGE PENNY 1035-1060 AD Obv: profile bust left with cross botonée to neck and with two pellets before the mouth with blundered NOIIININOIIINIIO legend with Ns mostly reverse barred and pellet-centred Os. Rev: long voided cross with 'hand' in first and third quarters and pellet-in-annulet set high in fourth quarter with blundered IOII / INI / NIO / IIN legend with reverse-barred Ns and pellet-centred Os; the pellet-in-annulet to the fourth quarter possibly intended as a final letter to the legend. 0.83 grams. Extremely fine; as struck, slight bend to flan. Very rare. Literature S. 6132 (for type); Roth Class 16, number 134/SCBI 32, 253 (obverse die duplicate; reverse similar to Roth 135); D&F 24; see Roth, Bernard, The Coins of the Danish Kings in Ireland: Hiberno-Danish Series, BNJ 6, pp.55-146 and pls.I-X for a detailed study and pp.107-109, numbers 133-137 for his class 16.
VIKING COINS - HIBERNO-NORSE - PHASE III - LONG CROSS AND HANDS COINAGE PENNY 1035-1060 AD Obv: profile bust left with cross botonée to neck and with two pellets before the mouth with blundered NOIIININOIIINIIO legend with Ns mostly reverse barred and pellet-centred Os. Rev: long voided cross with 'hand' in first and third quarters and pellet-in-annulet set high in fourth quarter with blundered IOII / INI / NIO / IIN legend with reverse-barred Ns and pellet-centred Os; the pellet-in-annulet to the fourth quarter possibly intended as a final letter to the legend. 0.83 grams. Extremely fine; as struck, slight bend to flan. Very rare. Literature S. 6132 (for type); Roth Class 16, number 134/SCBI 32, 253 (obverse die duplicate; reverse similar to Roth 135); D&F 24; see Roth, Bernard, The Coins of the Danish Kings in Ireland: Hiberno-Danish Series, BNJ 6, pp.55-146 and pls.I-X for a detailed study and pp.107-109, numbers 133-137 for his class 16.
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