Anglo-Saxon Coins - Offa - Canterbury / Pehtwald - Light Coinage Penny 780-792 AD

Obv: long cross botonné with cross of lobes over and +O FF AR EX legend. Rev: celtic cross with cross fleury over saltire at centre with PE HT VA LD legend in angles (with HT in monogram) for the moneyer Pehtwald at Canterbury mint. Very fine; edge slightly ragged. Very rare.(1.17 grams.).

Provenance

Found near Harston, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2012.

Published

See Early Medieval Corpus, Cambridge, reference EMC 2014.0312 (this coin).

Literature

S. 904; N. 277; CEB 73; see Chick 130d (same dies?).

Footnotes

Derek Chick recorded nine coins of this type for this moneyer at Canterbury.

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LOT 1699

Anglo-Saxon Coins - Offa - Canterbury / Pehtwald - Light Coinage Penny

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,331

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