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Auction: 18012 - The Williams Collection Part II, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coins
Lot: 123

(x) Mercia, Coenwulf (796-821), Penny, 1.418g, h, large portrait type (c.800-821), East Anglian mint (Ipswich?), Wodel, + coenvvlf - rex m, lozenge shaped o, diademed and draped bust right, the bust, between large letters f and r, represented by five pellets, breaking beaded inner circle, rev. po / d / e / l+. lozenge shaped o, in angles of long cross-crosslet with lozenge at centre containing five pellets (cf. Naismith E13.3 this coin not listed, as E13.3i but from different dies; N.370; S.920), a handsome coin, almost extremely fine, very rare

provenance:
Spink Numismatic Circular, December 1992, no. 7429

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