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Auction: 14004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1344

Mercia, Offa, Penny, 1.46g, heavy coinage, 792-96, Canterbury, Babba, central circle containing large pellet with rosette of small pellets, + offa rex m, lozenge o, uncial m with contraction bar, rev. babba between two lines, uncial m between two large annulets above, three arches below (Chick 219 - 219a, same dies; Blunt 85; N.319; S.908), dark tone, a most pleasing example of this type, almost extremely fine, rare

provenance
Found near Northampton, 2004
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0365

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£7,000