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Auction: 13015 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 680

Mercia, Offa (757-96), light coinage, c.780-92, Penny, 1.07g, portrait type, London, Dud, large diademed bust right, offa rex before, rev. + / d / v/ d, in uncial letters, in angles of four lobes cruciform over a cross botonée, trefoil tipped arms of a cross botonée in angles (Chick 24; Blunt 28; N.296; S.905), edge crack below bust, porous surfaces, full flan, good fine, an extremely rare type

provenance
Found at Wingham Well, Kent, 2005
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2009.0091 and BNJ Coin Register 2010, 164.

Chick notes one other example for type 24. This coin is from the same dies. The reverse die is also found on Chick type 25.

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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,000