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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 23

(x) Mercia, Cynethrith (wife of Offa), Penny, 1.10g, 1h, light coinage (c.779-792/3), Canterbury, Eoba, + cfnedrfd regina, around uncial m within beaded inner circle, rev. + e / o / b / a, lozenge o, each letter on limb of a cross of lobes, fleurs in angles (Chick 148g this coin, N.340 var.; S.910), some porosity but of good metal, very fine, very rare

provenance:
Millennia Collection, Goldberg, 26 May 2008, lot 187
Dr Jacob Y Terner collection
Found at Vale Farm, Longparish, near Andover, Hampshire, 1991 (EMC 1990.1094)

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