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Auction: 14004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1345

Mercia, Cynethryth, wife of Offa, non-portrait Penny, 1.25g, light coinage, c.770-92, Canterbury, Eoba, uncial letter m, contraction bar above and pellets around, within inner pelleted circle, +cfneÐrfÐ.regina, rev. +e / o / a / b, on limbs of a cross of lobes over cross fleury (Chick 148 - same obv. as 148d, same reverse as 148b; Blunt 124; N.340; S.910), slightly dished and lightly cleaned, otherwise good silver with full flan, nearly very fine, extremely rare

provenance
Found near Combe Bissett, Wilts, September 2013
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2014.0031

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