Vikings, Sihtric, AR Penny. 1.01 gr; 16.28 mm. Hiberno-Norse phase II penny. 1015-1035 AD. 

Obv: +SIHTRC REX DIFEL, portrait left, bust to edge on coin, inverted crozier behind neck. 
Rev: +NI/NMD/OIH/MIN[?], Blundered mint and moneyer's name, 
around a long voiled cross with pelleted oval ends, a pellet
 in each angle; Believed to be a version of the legend for 
the moneyer: Ndremin at Dublin.

Similar to S 6122; O'S 12, with blundered reverse legend.

This legend is not found in the book: 'The Earliest Irish 
Coinage' by William O'Sullivan (National Museum of Ireland), 
and no coins with this mint and moneyer signature are 
recorded with the Medieval Coin Corpus (EMC) at the 
Fitzwilliam Museum or the Sylloge of Coins (SCBI) of the 
British Isles.

Courtesy of TimeLine Originals (www.time-lines.co.uk), Nov, 2010