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Auction: 20055 - The Ennismore Collection of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coins
Lot: 2

Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, 'Light Coinage', Canterbury, Eoba, 1.26g, 3h, + O|FF|A R|EX, pellet cross inside lobed quatrefoil set upon a long cross fourchée, pellets in angles, rev. diademed and cuirassed bust right, E<•>BA before, trefoil stops before and between letters (Ruding [1819], pl. IV, no. 19; Lockett [1920], pp. 80 and pl. VIII, no. 15 same dies; Chick 112b this coin, cf. The Yorkshire Numismatist 3 1997, pp. 47, fig. 2 this coin; CEB 52; N.306; Spink 905), a deft edge nick at 8 o'clock, otherwise of sound fabric with an attractively uniform dark cabinet tone, the classical portrait beautifully executed by a London die cutter on behalf of 'the Royal engraver', good very fine, of equal rarity and with an exemplary pedigree

Provenance
Private acquisition from M Rasmussen, 2016
LaRiviere, Spink 160, 10 October 2002, lot 972 - £2,800
Rasmussen FPL, 17 October 2001
Webb-Ware collection
L R Stack, 22-23 April 1999, Sotheby (New York), lot 283 - £1,750 [Webb-Ware]
Ridgemount, Spink 69, 20 April 1989, lot 33 - £4,400
Spink 31, 12 October 1983, lot 83 - 'an extremely rare type' - £3,200
Spink Numismatic Circular, September 1977, no. 8241
Clonterbrook Trust, Glendining, 7 July 1974, lot 6 (plate) - £3000
Lockett, Glendining, 26-27 April 1960, lot 3564 (plate) - £260
Reynolds, Sotheby, 4 May 1914, lot 6 (plate) - 'very fine and extremely rare' - £18.10.0 [Spink]
'Astronomer' [McClean], Sotheby, 11 June 1906, lot 85 (plate) - 'very fine and of great rarity' - £11.0.0 [Spink]
Montagu, Sotheby, 18 November 1895, lot 188 - 'very fine and extremely rare' - £11.10.0 [Money]
Brice, collection purchased en bloc by Montagu, 1887
Bartolomeo Borghesi Museum, Part II, Raffaele Dura and Sambon (Rome), 24 April 1880, lot 1363 - 'DENARO. E.O.B.A. Busto a d.
R. + O-FF-A R-EX negli spazi di una croce R.2 F.D.C. AR.'
~ Rome Hoard, c. 1830 ~





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Sold for
£14,000

Starting price
£10000