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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 25

(x) Mercia, Coenwulf (796-821), Penny, 1.36g, 6h, transitional type (c.797-798), London (?), Pendwine, +cenvvlf, retrograde n, uncial m above, rex below, divided by two beaded bars, broken at their centre and with added hooks, additional pellets above and below, rev. pendvvine, retrograde n, legend begins at 7 o'clock, around voided long cross containing beaded line and cross (Naismith L5a this coin; N.- ; S.912A), some light surface corrosion and slight edge wave, good very fine, toned, one of only two examples known

provenance:
CNG Triton III, 30 November 1999, lot 1466
Valued History (Ely, Cambs.) list, December 1997, no. 48
Found near Watton, Norfolk, 1997 (EMC 1997.0115)
BNJ Coin Register 1997, no. 115

Pendwine is a very elusive moneyer. He is not known as a moneyer for Offa, and Blunt Lyon and Stewart listed only one coin of Coenwulf by him, a 'tribrach moline' type from the Delgany hoard (BLS 17; N.342). Since then two examples of this remarkable 'standing cross' type have been found, this example, found in Norfolk in 1997, and the second found at Alfriston, East Suffolk, in 2009. While the obverse has stylistic ties with the early London issues of Coenwulf, and therefore the coin has been listed as a London type by Naismith, the 'standing cross' reverse does not relate to any other reverse type, and is not know for any other moneyer.

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