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Auction: 5010 - Ancient, English, Italian & other Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 74

Archbishops of Canterbury, Aethelheard, under Offa of Mercia (792-793), first issue, Penny, 1.41g., AEDILHEARD PONT, small cross pattee with central pellet, over cross, within triple inner circle, the middle circle beaded, rev. OFFA REX M in three lines, divided by two bars with crosses at each end (N.227 var.; S.884), mottled tone on reverse, tiny scratch on E of REX, otherwise a well struck and attractive coin, good very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 2,000-2,500Both the triple inner circle on the obverse, and the use of double long crosses on the reverse, appear to be unrecorded. A comparable coin, but with a single inner circle, and the king´s name in and between two lunettes, was illustrated in BNJ Coin Register 1994, no.177

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