kardonivm caes

The seller asking unreasonable price, around 1100 USD, no one will bid it. Usually those guys calming down and reducing price, it will take couple of weeks. Not so good deal for the unidentified coin which could turn out as ordinary low grade scrap. The area where he found the coin is famous for many viking's mounds related to conquest and state establishing, so could be the coin. That is why I'm so intrested. No any evidence of first konungs coinage found yet and almost no historical data available. Unfortunatelly I concentrated on roman empire coins and don't have any connection with people who related to scandinavian/saxon coins or access to related studies. I would appreciate if you can give some references. Since it was on the way Scandinavia - Byzantium/Scandinavia - Caspian Sea river trade routs almost any european or asian coin can be found in the area and chances are low.

OK, so from information available in internet, not so much was found. First of all auctions. I found only 3 coins and 1 fragments of klippe coin all belongs to Olaf Skötkonung, he is actually first king who minted coins in Sweden. The legends are different, no similar DIE there: http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=2034713&AucID=1913&Lot=699&Val=3fe77167ac8610239508098eb5c3a6e3 http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=sigtuna+klippe&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&order=0&company= Nice old articles only to find out that Cnud was making danish coins using Ethelred name, No klippe, no similar legens, as far I can see. http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1960_BNJ_30_23.pdf http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1915_BNJ_11_4.pdf And some swedish blog which I read with google translate, misusing different dies together, die mistakes where CNVT describing himself as CVNT. Still no matches. http://myntbloggen.se/2013/09/03/anund-jakob-ca-1022-1050/

Thank you for valuable input, I'll try to dig in this direction.

Got reply, weight 1.98 gr, a bit better pictures

I'll try to gather more information about the coin and come back. Place is not some forgery paradise like ebay, more like this site - collectors forum combined with auction, where most of the lots are first hand sales going via initial discussion with local experts on forum. Events where forgery slip through the nets and being actualy sold are extremely rare. Also it is make very little sense for man with such good skills to make english penny imitation on square peace of metal, hole it and try to sell in Ukraine, where he can find 1-2 collectors of such things. Kievan Rus forgeries would be way more profitable with small coin's fragments start from 50$.

This coin just popped up on ukrainian online auction yesterday. I 'm trying to contact seller for more data, but he is not replying for now. The guy looks like ordinary treasure hunter, according to his lots living in Chernigiv (near viking's established Kievan Rus capital). It is quite rare, but possible to see in Ukraine, Aethelred pennies or else, but with this coin I'm just out of any ideas. I checked wildwinds, nothing square there, but some viking's rulers in England also has similar coin design, that is why I came here. Our community out of ideas.

Good day Please help with the X-XI century coin attribution. Sorry for picture quality.