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Auction: 11024 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 70

East Anglia, Eadwald, c.796-98/800, Penny, 1.39g, probably Ipswich, Lul, king´s name between two pelleted lines, rex / +eadva/ ld, quadrilateral of five pellets before rex, rosette either side of ld, rev. +/l/v/l/ within segments of a quadrilobe, ornaments by letters, rosettes in angles (Naismith E3 - new die combination; N.432; S.947), small edge chip at four o´clock, full details otherwise good very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 3,000-4,000 provenance Found near Blean, Canterbury, Kent, July 2011 Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2011-0178. This is only the sixth example recorded for this issue. Of these, three coins are known all from the same dies. This coin is from different dies. The other two recorded coins are damaged and unable to be attributed to particular dies. On the death of Offa in 796, the East Anglians rebelled against the Mercians and appear to have installed Eadwald as their king. Eadwald is only known from his coinage which provides the main evidence for this rebellion as he is not recorded in any written source. It would seem he held out as an independent king in East Anglia until it was reconquered by the Mercians under Coenwulf probably c.800.

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