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Auction: 19007 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Winter Auction
Lot: 25

Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, Light coinage, South Eastern, non-portrait type, Canterbury, Eoba, 1.27g, 3h, long cross botonnée, +o|ff|a r|ex and pelleted-lobe in angles, rev. e||b|a [retrograde] in angles of Celtic cross, fleurs on terminals, cross pommée with pellet in each angle at centre (Chick 117b this coin; CEB 50; EMC 1988.0145 this coin; N.276; S.904), light tone, good very fine, very rare

provenance
Dr Andrew Wayne, CNG, Triton XX, 10-11 January 2017, lot 1481
Acquired privately 10 February 2014 [with Philpott's ticket]
Spink auction 62, 19 November 1987, lot 271 - "apparently unrecorded, very fine and extremely rare" - £1,100
~ Coin Register, 1988, no. 145 ~
Reportedly found near Newark, Nottinghamshire, 1987


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Sold for
£1,400

Starting price
£1400