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Auction: 9017 - Ancient, British & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 474

Anglo-Saxon, Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, 1.18g, light coinage, c.780-792, portrait type, Canterbury, Pehtwald, draped bust right, offa re before, .x. behind, rev. celtic cross, pe/ht/va/ld between arms, containing a cross with floreate terminals over four lobes, pellets in angles (CEB 74; N.294; S.905; cf. SCBI 9/9, 42/638a; Chick (forthcoming), same reverse dies as 130a, 130b), full flan, surface corrosion on obverse, bold reverse, surface corrosion in places, about fine / nearly very fine, very rare Estimate £ 800-1,000 provenance Found February 2009, near Wragby, Lincs The obverse has been damaged probably as a result of stubble burning. This coin is an example of one the the most celebated portraits of Offa. Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2009.0116.

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