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Auction: 11024 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 2

Kent, anonymous coinage, regal issues (c.822-23), Penny, 1.30g, Canterbury, Oba, diademed bust right within inner circle from which extend three arms in the form of a cross dividing the legend, oba-mon-eta, uncial m, rev. dorob/ernia c/ivita/s in four lines, small cross pattée above (Naismith C53 - coin not listed; N.222; S.878), small edge chip at 10 o´clock, crimped, lightly toned, good very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 2,500-3,500 This issue belongs to the period between the rejection by Kent of the Mercian Ceolwulf I and the installation of Baldred as king. Ceolwulf I was crowned by Archbishop Wulfred probably in late 822 and Baldred seems to have become king by 824, suggesting this anonymous regal issue belongs to a very short period of about a year in 822/23. provenance Bt. Spink, 2007

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