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1 Penning - Harthacnut Cross and crescents

Issuer Denmark
Year 1035-1042
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse lettering ✠ NARDECNVT
Reverse description Central short voided cross with four crescents, each bearing pellet tips, positioned in the angles of the cross arms; a small pellet is placed in each of the four corners within the inner circle, creating a symmetrical decorative composition typical of Anglo-Scandinavian penny types. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the moneyer's legend running clockwise in the surrounding field.
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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.