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Auction: 19007 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Winter Auction
Lot: 29

Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, Light coinage, East Anglia, non-portrait type, Wihtræd, 1.15g, 4h, of|fa|re|x in angles of 'mushroom'-cross, rev. + þ|ih|+r|ed in angles of lozenge-cross fleury, d retrograde (Chick 183a this coin; CEB 113; N.336; S.907), rougher surfaces and a minor flan split at 11 o'clock, otherwise a bold fine, very rare, one of only three examples known to Chick

provenance
The Raymond Gardner Collection
SNC, May 1993, no. 2572
~ Coin Register, 1988, no. 153 ~
Found at Stourpaine, Dorset, in the 1970s


For further reading, see: 'Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Proceedings 101, 1979, pp. 361


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Sold for
£700

Starting price
£210