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Auction: 11023 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 18

Mercia, Offa, Penny, 1.15g, light coinage, c.770-792, non-portrait type, earliest phase, c.775, Canterbury, Eoba, o/f//r/m, contraction mark under f, uncial m, in angles of beaded long cross extending from central beaded circle containing a cross formed of five pellets, rev. e/o/b/a in angles of a long cross, each arm terminating in a triangle, various pellets in fields (CEB 11; Chick 103a (BMA 32) - same dies; N.261; S.904), slight edge loss, professionally conserved, a pleasing example of this early issue of Offa, extremely rare, very fine Estimate £ 1,800-2,200 provenance Found St. Peter´s, Thanet, Kent, 2011 Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2011.0122. This type belongs to the earliest phase of Offa´s broad flan Penny coinage and is dated to c.775 before the battle of Otford in 776 after which he was temporarily ejected from Kent. Eoba was the earliest and most productive of Offa´s moneyers. This coin is the sixth recorded example of this type.

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