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Auction: 18012 - The Williams Collection Part II, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coins
Lot: 107

(x) Archbishops of Canterbury, Aethelheard (793-805), with Offa as overlord, Penny, first issue (792-793), 1.41g, 6h, + offa rex, lozenge shaped o, in two lines, Mercian m above, divided by two bars with crosses at each end, rev. ·:· aedilheard pont, around triple inner circle containing small cross pattée over long cross with central pellet (Chick 246a this coin; N.227 var.; S.884), mottled tone on reverse, tiny scratch on e of rex, otherwise a well struck and attractive coin, good very fine, extremely rare, the only example listed by Chick

provenance:
Spink auction 174, 30 June 2005, lot 74

The Spink auction catalogue gives the obverse and reverse the other way round to the Chick listing. We have followed the Chick listing this time.

The previous catalogue noted ' Both the triple inner circle on the obverse, and the use of double long crosses on the reverse, appear to be unrecorded. A comparable coin, but with a single inner circle and the king's name in and between two lunettes, was illustrated in the BNJ Coin Register 1994, no. 177.'

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Sold for
£5,200