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1 Penning - Harthacnut Cross and crescents
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1035-1042 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Armored bust of King Harthacnut facing left, depicted wearing a conical helmet with prominent cheek guards and a mail hauberk, the shoulders and chest rendered in a stylized manner characteristic of Viking-age Scandinavian coinage. The effigy is rendered in bold relief with a pronounced facial profile. A Latin legend commences at the lower left of the field and runs clockwise around the periphery, separated from the central device by a beaded inner circle. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Harthacnut ruled Denmark and England simultaneously from 1040, having seized the English throne after the death of his half-brother Harold Harefoot. His reign was brief and deeply unpopular in England, where chroniclers record that he taxed his subjects so aggressively to fund his fleet that the collectors were murdered in Worcester — yet Danish coinage from his rule survives in reasonable quantity, suggesting the mint apparatus he inherited from Cnut remained functional throughout.