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Auction: 14006 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 88

Mercia, Coenwulf (796-821), Penny, 1.35g, three line phase, 796-97, London, Winoth, cenvvlf between beaded crooks vis-à-vis, uncial m, trefoil at each side above, rex with pellets, rev. vvinoÐ, lozenge o, within angles of beaded long cross, three arms terminating with an uncial m, one arm with a parallel line terminating with crooks (Naismith L7a var - obverse die duplicate; N.-; cf S.912A), patchy tone, slightly buckled and with a little edge loss but with all the essential devices legible, good very fine, extremely rare, only the second example of this transitional Offa-Coenwulf type and unique with the moneyer's name reading clockwise on reverse

provenance
Found near Bedford, Bedfordshire, April 2014
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2014.0119

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