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Auction: 13013 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 219

Frankish Kingdom, Carolingians, Pepin the Short (751-68), Denier, 0.92g, Dorestadt, npipi, cross above, bar below, rev. rp monogram, bar above, cross within trefoil below (Depeyrot 409; cf MEC I, 719), chipped, crack at 7 o'clock, brushed fields, nearly very fine, an important and rare find from an English location

provenance
Found at Melbourne, Cambridgeshire, April 2012
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0126

Finds of early Carolingian Deniers in England are extremely rare, this being only the seventh recorded. Others, none identical with this, have been found at Repton, West Hythe, Richborough, Seaford (East Sussex), Bere Regis, Dorset and Princes Risborough, Bucks (the last, lot 123, Spink auction 26 June 2008). The Deniers of Pepin were the precedent for the introduction of the broad flan penny coinage of Offa.

Estimate
£2,000 to £2,500