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Auction: 8019 - Ancient, English, Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 818

Anglo-Saxon, Kent, Eadberht Praen (796-798), Penny, 1.23g, type 1, Canterbury, Ethelnoth, .e.ad / bearht / rex in three rows divided by two plain lines, inverted trefoil before rex, a pellet after, e of ead tilted at 45 degrees, rev. uncial ´Mercian´ m between two ornaments on first line, edelmod on second and third lines (N.203; S.875), some edge loss, bent, flan crack, dark tone, clear details, very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 2,500-3,500 provenance Found Rushton, Northants, 2006. Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum (EMC 2006.0238). This is the second recorded example of this obverse variety with the tilted e. The other coin is struck from a different reverse die (EMC1985.0071). SCBI/EMC lists 14 coins of Eadberht Praen including this coin. This example is therefore a recent addition to the small surviving corpus for this Kentish king who tried, unsucessfully, to throw off Mercian overlordship after the death of Offa.

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