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Auction: 19025 - Ancient, Indian and Islamic, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1600

Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, light coinage, portrait type, East Anglia, Wihtred, 1.06g, + offa + rex +, lozenge shaped o and chevron-barred a, crude East Anglian style bust right, rev. + p / ih / tr / ed in angles of branched cross with central beaded circle containing rosette (Chick 178b, same dies; Blunt -; N-; S.906), full round flan with surface encrustation removed, otherwise very fine, very rare

provenance
Spink 227, 17 December 2014, lot 477
Found near Haughley, Suffolk, June 2014
Recorded with the British Museum, ref. PAS: SF-6D64D1


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Estimate
£2,500 to £3,000