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LOT 2776
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Coenwulf - London / Diola - Transitional Tribrach Penny 796-805 AD
Group I, without portrait, BMC type 99. Obv: king's name CENVVLF between hooked lines with Mercian 'm' and trefoils of pellets above and R.E.X below. Rev: 'bone-ended' tribrach with pelleted centre lines dividing .DI .O: L.A. legend with lozenge 'O' for the moneyer Diola at London mint. 1.36 grams.
Good very fine. Very rare (Naismith only records seven examples of the type, four for this moneyer).
PROVENANCE:
Found Dell Quay, West Sussex, UK, 2015.
PUBLISHED:
See Early Medieval Corpus, Cambridge, reference EMC 2015.001 (this coin).
LITERATURE:
S. 914; N. 343.; Naismith L2c (same dies, EMC 1999.0037); see also Naismith L2b (same obverse die, Dorking Hoard).
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