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Auction: 19007 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Winter Auction
Lot: 22

Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, Light coinage, South Eastern, portrait type, London, Ealhmund, 1.10g, 4h, + offa rex, diademed bust right, breaking inner circle, rev. +e|al|mv|nd, separated by four bosses around central pelleted boss (Chick 49a this coin; EMC 1999.0076 this coin; CEB -; N.313; S.905), dark tone overlying a subtly creased flan with only the faintest traces of surface porosity, otherwise a pleasing coin, very fine, very rare, the only example known to Chick

provenance
Private acquisition, 12 May 2011
Purchased Spink, 11 October 2000 - £1,950, having been unsold in:
Spink auction 141, 22 March 2000, lot 177
~ Coin Register 1999, no. 77 ~
Found by Roy Davis, near Kelvedon, Essex, 1999

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Sold for
£1,600

Starting price
£1000