Details

LOT 2555

Anglo-Saxon Coins - Offa - East Anglia / Wihtred - Light Coinage AR Penny 760-792 A.D.

Light coinage. Obv: hollow cross with incurved sides and lozenge ends with quadruple pellets within and O FF AR EX in angles for OFFA REX. Rev: hollow lozenge with fleurs at cusps and cross within with +P IH TR E in angles for the moneyer PIHTRE or Wihtred at an uncertain East Anglia mint. Near extremely fine. A new type for the moneyer and thus unique.(1.20 grams.).

Provenance

Found near Lower Hatcheston, Suffolk, UK, April 2020.

Accompanied by copies of the British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), reference SE-87E18C and Early Medieval Corpus, reference 2020.0196 records.

Published

See British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference SF-87E18C (this coin); see Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference EMC 2020.0196.

Literature

S. 907; N. 336; cf. Chick 183 for generally similar dies.

Footnotes

The EMC record includes the comment 'A new type for the East Anglian moneyer Wihtred, cf. Chick 183'; although this coin shares some features and details with other coins of this moneyer and of others, these dies are distinctly different from any others previously recorded.