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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 8

(x) Archbishops of Canterbury, Jaenberht (765-792), with Offa as overlord (c.780-792), Penny, 1.16g, 6h, offa rex, in two lines in lunettes divided by a beaded bar with fleurs at each end, rev. + iaenbrht arep around solid inner circle containing wheel design of eight limbs radiating from a central pellet (Chick 157c this coin; SCBI 2 (Glasgow) 391 same dies; N.224; S.882), edge slightly weak at 11 - 12 o'clock, good very fine, very rare

provenance:
Linzalone, Stack's, 7-8 December 1994, lot 2328
Found at Lodge Farm, Cobham Hall, near Rochester, Medway, 1989, EMC 2001.1132


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