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tinction, for the three coins mentioned by me are as " well
struck" and apparently as little "blundered" as the penny of
Mr. Brice himself. In case, as a consequence of the likeness
of this piece to the cited coin of Edward the Confessor (" Num.
Chron.," vol. xvi. PI. XII. No. 7), he assumes Mr. Brice's
penny to have been struck in the last years of this reign,
king's
and for ENVT as the
aim, and that the moneyer carelessly put
King's name instead of EDPARD, he will
find it to be exactly parallel with the Swedish piece described
by me at p. 230, lines 3 6, on which ENVT is carelessly
engraved instead of ANVND.
My great object was to show that the coin in question could
not be " struck by King Cnut the Great, as assumed by the
English numismatists," but must be about fifty years later ;
' '
and this I expressed by the words that it
dates from the time
of Cnut the Saint, as Thomson thought" (p. 227, lines 15 17)
Cnut the Saint being the second Danish king of that name
in the eleventh century. I used this expression on purpose,
because I would be cautious, and because I cannot prove that
the piece is from this particular king. But on the ground that
the coinage of money in England was an institution centuries
old and well consolidated, and that in the long series of English
coins we scarcely find any example of such extraordinary
riddles as that on Mr. Brice's penny ; while, on the other
hand, such riddles not seldom occur on coins struck in Scandi-
navia, where coining money was comparatively new and little
consolidated, I willingly admit that I am inclined to believe
this piece, in spite of its REX AN and NORPI, to be
really Danish ; and, as far as we can judge from its size,
type, style, ami royal name, from the reign of Cnut the Saint.
Believe me, &c.,
C. F. HEBEST.