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Auction: 15004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 515

Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, 1.18g, light coinage, c.779-92, Canterbury, Osmod, long cross botonnée over saltire botonnée, +o / ff / ar / ex in angles of cross, rev. o / sm / o / d in angles of long cross botonnée with large annulet enclosing a saltire at the centre, some dispersed pellets in field (Chick 125e var - annulet added; Blunt 19 var; N.264 var; S.904), a field find with surface porosity, significant edge knock at 9 o'clock and with some crimping elsewhere on periphery, the fields and legend mostly well discernable, nearly very fine

provenance
Found Grazeley, Berkshire, 4 September 2013
Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, British Museum,
ref. BUC-5FCC31

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£800