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Auction: 17029 - British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 92

Kingdom of Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, heavy coinage, Canterbury, Babba, 1.29g, offa / rex in two lines, uncial m above, rev. babba across field, stylised geometric and pelleted crosshatch pattern below, circle-over-saltire above (Chick 221 plate coin; Blunt 84; S.908), minor edge chips, otherwise good very fine and extremely rare

provenance
Ryan, Glendining, 22 January 1952, lot 618
Grantley, Glendining, 22 March 1944, lot 825, £21
Rashleigh, Sotheby, 21 June 1909, lot 38
Moore, Sotheby, 24 January 1856, lot 102


notes
This coin is believed to be unique, with this example currently forming the only record of Derek Chick's type 221 within his extensive 2010 corpus reappraising the coinage of King Offa. This coin has also featured within Blunt's publication: 'The Coinage of Offa' (London, 1961, pl.VI, no.84) and also in Lockett's earlier article of the same name (NC IV. 20, 1920, pl.VI, no.6)

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Sold for
£2,600