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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 87

Mercia, Offa (757-96), heavy coinage, c.792-96, Penny, 1.20g., Canterbury, Babba, +OFFA/REX uncial M above with trefoils at sides, various pellets in fields, rev. BABBA between two lines, uncial M above between large annulets, arcs with pellets below (Chick 220c – this coin; N.-; S.908), minor edge loss, surface crack on reverse, very fine, rare

PROVENANCE
Baldwin auction 36, 4 may 2004, 40
SNC March 1993, 990
Found near Babraham, Cambs., 1992

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£580