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Auction: 25004 - British and World Coins and Medals
Lot: 12

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, 1.17g [18.05gns], 9h (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]; 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; EMC 2010.0384, 2013.0213, 2019.0012, 2019.0309, 2024.0140 [this coin]; Chick 18; North 317; S.905), slightly warped flan, otherwise a stable fabric and of good metal, pleasingly toned, very fine, extremely rare, only three other complete examples recorded by EMC

Provenance

TimeLines 160, 8 September 2024, lot 3505

Found near Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk), 3 April 2024

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, EMC 2024.0140 ~



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Estimate
£4,000 to £6,000

Starting price
£4000