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Auction: 24004 - British and World Coins and Medals Spring Auction
Lot: 8

Mercia, Offa (757-796), Light Coinage, Group II, 'Portrait' Type, Penny, c. 780-792/3, Ceolheard, + OFFA REX +, diademed and draped portrait right, rev. CIOL | HARD in two lines above and below coiled serpent, with plain head, 1.20g [18.5gns], 12h (Ruding, pp. 4, no. 16; Sir John Evans [Sale, lot 3] = NumChron, 1920, Pl. VI, 13 = Brooke [1922], no. 17; SCBI 20 [Mack], 554 [and Sale, lot 80, this coin]; SCBI 36 [Berlin], 68; SCBI 67 [BM], 55-57; Dymock = Murchison = 'Gentleman, 1871' = Addington = Montagu 191 = Murdoch 14 = Roth 64 = Lockett 349 = Ridgemount 32 = Stack 289 = Schraeder 2121; Allen 177; Assheton Pownall, NumChron (1876), Pl. V, no. 2; Lockett, 'The Coinage of Offa', Pl. VI, nos. 12-14; Blunt 23; Chick 18; North 317; Spink 905), edge chipping in two places, the fabric otherwise stable and of good metal, dark tone, very fine and extremely rare

Provenance

The David Wolfson Collection

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, EMC 1020.0554 ~

Commander R P Mack, Part I, Spink-Glendining, 1975, lot 80 - £1,500 [with his ticket]

Henry Platt Hall, collection dispersed by Spink (acquired 10 June 1954, with Mack's note of this being the centenary of the Cuff sale)

Gilbert C Drabble, Part I, Glendining, 4-6 July 1939, lot 318* - "extremely fine, but chipped at edge, and very rare" - £17.5.0

Evelyn W Rashleigh, Sotheby, 21-25 June & 28 June - 1 July 1909, lot 36 and pl. I - "slight fractures on edge, otherwise very fine, extremely rare type" -

James Dodsley Cuff, Sotheby's, 10 June 1854 [third day], lot 270 - "very fine and of great rarity" - £10.10.0 [Rashleigh]


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Sold for
£2,500

Starting price
£1500