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LOT 1395
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Offa - London / Dud(da) - Light Coinage Portrait Penny
765-792 AD, Blunt 28. Obv: diademed profile bust right with OFFA REX in front. Rev: large lobed cross with cross botoneé to each lobe and + d U d in angles for the moneyer Dud(da) at London. 1.08 grams.
Near as struck; small edge split and some surface pitting. Very rare; possibly only one other example recorded.
PROVENANCE:
Found Wingham Well, Kent, UK, 2009; recorded with the Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
LITERATURE:
S. 905; N. 296; Blunt 28; Chick 24 (one example listed; same dies); see EMC 2009.0091 (this coin).
FOOTNOTES:
The reverse die is seen used with the Chick type 25 obverse (three examples recorded), also struck by the moneyer Dud(da).
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