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Auction: 14004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1346

Mercia, Bishops of London, Eadberht (d. c.789), with Offa, Penny, 1.23g, long cross, each limb terminating with a cross, extending from a central roundel within which a rosette of pellets, o / f / m/ rx in angles, lozenge o, uncial m, rev. ead / berh / t ep, in three lines divided by pelleted lines (Chick 82a; Blunt 34; N.279; S.911), good metal and full flan present, bent on edge, a field find, good fine, extremely rare

provenance
Found near Bardney, Lincs, September 2013
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge EMC 2014.0030

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Sold for
£2,300