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1035, Denmark/England/Norway, Cnut "the Great". Rare Silver Penny Coin. PCGS XF+ He was also  king of Denmark, Norway and parts of Sweden.

Mint Place: York Moneyer: Hildulfr Denomination: Penny Mint Period: 1029-1035/6 AD Reference: BEH 678; N 790; S 1159. RR! Condition: Certified and graded by PCGS as XF (Details: Repaired!) Diameter: 18mm Material: Silver

Obverse: Diademed bust left. Lis-topped scepter before. Legend: + CNVT RECX A Reverse: Voided short cross with pellet-in-annulet in center. Legend: + HLDVLF ON EOFE

Northumbria or Northhumbria (Old English: Norpanhymbra / Norphymbre) was a medieval kingdom of the Angles, in what is now north-east England and southern Scotland, becoming subsequently an earldom in a united Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England. The name reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory: the Humber Estuary. Northumbria was formed in central Great Britain in Anglo-Saxon times. At the beginning of the 7th century the two kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira were unified.

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Cnut the Great  (c. 985 or 995 i 12 November 1035), more commonly known as Canute, was a king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden. After the death of his heirs within a decade of his own and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, his legacy was largely lost to history. Historian Norman F. Cantor has made the paradoxical statement that he was "the most effective king   in Anglo-Saxon history", despite his not being Anglo-Saxon.

Cnut was of Danish and Slavic descent. His father was Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark (which gave Cnut the patronym Sweynsson, Old Norse Sveinsson). Cnut's mother was the daughter of the first duke of the Polans, Mieszko I; her name may have been Ã…Å¡wiÄ™tosÅ‚awa (see: Sigrid StorrÃÆ'Â¥da), but the Oxford DNB article on Cnut states that her name is unknown.

As a prince of Denmark, Cnut won the throne of England in 1016 in the wake of centuries of Viking activity in northwestern Europe. His accession to the Danish throne in 1018 brought the crowns of England and Denmark together. Cnut   held this power-base together by uniting Danes and Englishmen under   cultural bonds of wealth and custom, rather than sheer brutality. After a   decade of conflict with opponents in Scandinavia, Cnut claimed the crown of Norway in Trondheim in 1028. The Swedish city Sigtuna was held by Cnut. He had coins struck which called him king there, but there is no narrative record of his occupation.

The kingship of England lent the Danes an important link to the maritime zone between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, where Cnut like his father before him had a strong interest and wielded much influence among the Gall-Ghaedhil.

Cnut's possession of England's dioceses and the continental Diocese of Denmark i with a claim laid upon it by the Holy Roman Empire's Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen i was a source of great leverage within the Church, gaining notable concessions from Pope Benedict VIII, and his successor John XIX, such as one on the price of the pallium of his bishops. Cnut also gained concessions on the tolls his people had to pay on the way to Rome from other magnates of medieval Christendom, at the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor.   After his 1026 victory against Norway and Sweden, and on his way to   Rome for this coronation, Cnut, in a letter written for the benefit of   his subjects, stated himself "king of all England and Denmark and the   Norwegians and of some of the Swedes".

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