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Auction: 13014 - Indian, Islamic, British and Anglo-Gallic Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 495

Mercia, Offa (757-96), Penny, 0.99g, light coinage, non-portrait type, c.780-92, London, Winoth, offa / rex in two rows divided by beaded line terminating in a fleur at each end, pellets in fields, rev. vi / n / o / Ð, in angles of a cross, formed of pelleted lines each terminating in a fleur, extending from a central lozenge within which a cross in a rectangle (Chick -; Blunt -; N.-; S.904), ragged flan, generally fine, an new type for this moneyer

provenance

Found at Whitchurch, nr. Basingstoke, Hants, April 2013
PAS ref. HAMP-8D55A3
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0282

The obverse is similar to Chick 76, but the reverse is a new type for this moneyer and Offa.


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