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Auction: 20123 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 3 - Part I: The Penny: 'From Actium to the Anarchy' (31BC - AD 1154)
Lot: 1529

Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, Light coinage, South Eastern, non-portrait type, Canterbury, Eoba, 1.27g, 3h, long cross botonnée, +O|FF|A R|EX and pelleted-lobe in angles, rev. E||B|A [retrograde] in angles of Celtic cross, fleurs on terminals, cross pommée with pellet in each angle at centre (Chick 117b this coin; CEB 50; EMC 1988.0145 this coin; BM Coin Register, 1988, no. 145; N.276; S.904), light tone, good very fine, very rare

Provenance
Spink 265, 10 December 2019, lot 25
Dr Andrew Wayne, CNG, Triton XX, 10-11 January 2017, lot 1481
Spink auction 62, 19 November 1987, lot 271 - apparently unrecorded, very fine and extremely rare - £1,100 (acquired privately, 10 February 2014, via Philpott)
Reportedly Found near Newark, Nottinghamshire, 1987

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Estimate

Starting price
£1000