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English: A silver quatrefoil penny of Cnut the Great, one of the Saxon coins decorating the margin of Moll's map of Norfolk, sold separately and as Map 22 in his Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales..., copied from Figure 7 of Tabula III Nummi Saxonici on Page 146 of Obadiah Walker's "Notes on the Saxon Coins" appended to the English translation of William Camden's Britannica. The actual quatrefoil designs also had quatrefoil reverses, although these could sometimes broaden to appear almost circular (1).

Notes:
Legend: REX ANELORVH CNVT [intending CNVT REX ANGLORVM, Cnut the King of the English]
Walker's note states "All the first ten are of Cnut, (called the Great) the first Danish King of England. There are very many of his coins extant: I have only described those wherein is some notable variety. Though Sven his father made divers conquests, and several countries as well as persons (preferring his activeness before Ethelred's sloth) not regarding the justice of the cause, submitted to him, and paid largely for his protection; yet was he never King, nor assumed (he or his son) the title; till Edmund Ironside consented, by the persuasion of a traitor, to divide the kingdom with him. The vile but potent Edric thought that more was to be got by shoring up a new active usurper, than adhering to the just cause of his true and royal sovereign. Nor was Cnut unmindful of him; but, according to his promise, advanced him above all the other lords of the kingdom, by cutting off his head, and exposing it upon a high pole. Amongst all these figures of Cnut, only one (the seventh) is with a crown; and that an open one, (contrary to that of the English kings before him) and adorned with lilies; which would make me suspect that coin to be counterfeit, were it not that our historians say that when he was young he wore his crown at the great assemblies of the nobility, so many times in the year; as was the custom, both here, in France, Germany, and I think with all European princes in those times. But one time, being mightily flattered by his courtiers, he chanced to be upon the sea-banks, whither he commanded his chair to be brought; where sitting down upon the beach in great majesty, he told the sea, that that was his land, and the water his water; wherefore he commanded the sea to be content with its own Channel, and not cover any part of the land. Which he had no sooner said, but the water dashed upon him: whereupon he told his flatterers, that they should henceforward forbear all boasting of his power and greatness. After this, it is reported he would never wear a crown. Others say, that he never wore a crown after his coronation; and that then also, at his coronation, presently after the crown was set upon his head, he took it off, and fixed it upon the head of our saviour crucified. The ordinary covering of his head was sometimes a mitre, (as fig. 6.) Other times a cap, (as fig. 5.) sometimes a triangular covering, used after him by Andronicus the eastern Emperor, and by St. Edward the Confessor. The reverse of ... 7. The seventh hath Wulfric on London."

London: Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux-Court in the Strand; Tho. Bowles, Print and Map-Seller near the Chapter-House in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Bowles Print and Map-Seller over-against Stocks-Market. 1724.