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Auction: 19007 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Winter Auction
Lot: 31

Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, Heavy coinage, South Eastern, non-portrait type, London, Ealhmund, 1.37g, 3h, + offa rex, in two lines, uncial m above, trefoil of pellets at beginning and end of each line, rev. altar cross motif on tripod, ealh•m•vnd (legend starts at 7 o'clock) around (Chick -; EMC 2010.0364 this coin; UKDFD 23855 this coin; CEB -; N -; S.908), wavy flan as found, good very fine, unknown to Chick, very rare

provenance
Spink auction 207, 23 March 2011, lot 18
Found by Mick Kemp, Dunmow, Essex, 7 November 2010

Eahlmund is a well-documented London moneyer for Offa's light coinage (cf. Chick 35-50), but has only previously been recorded for one issue under the later heavy coinage (Chick 205). Evidently a related series to the present coin on account of similar obverse dies, the reverse design differs in use of icons, with five examples recorded with a Celtic cross, and this, the first to document an 'altar' or standard motif otherwise not found in Offa's coinage. Since its discovery, a further example has been discovered near Lenham, Kent (EMC 2015.0256) with the further variety of incorporating pellets into the centre of the tripod design.

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Sold for
£1,000

Starting price
£1000