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Auction: 19026 - The Williams Collection Part IV - Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 468

(x) Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, 1.29g, 6h, heavy coinage without portrait, c.792-796, South Eastern (Canterbury?) mint, Ethelnoth, + offa between two lines of pellets, uncial m between pellets above, rex below, rev. eÞel noÞ, in two lunettes divided by a line of pellets (Chick 232b this coin; CEB.97 same dies; N.321; S.908), edge loss between 12 and 3 o'clock, otherwise nearly very fine

provenance:
Lawrence Stack, Sotheby, 22-23 April 1999, lot 294
Glendining, 5 October 1987, lot 397
Found near Kettering, Northamptonshire, c.1935

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