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LOT 3293
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Burgred AR Penny. 852-874.
Uncertain mint. Hereferth, moneyer. Lunettes Unbroken type. Phase III, struck circa 868/70-874. BVRGR[...], diademed and draped bust to right / [...]EREFER across central field; Ð MoN-[...] in lunettes above and below. North 423; cf. SCBC 942B. Very Fine. Toned. Edge chipped.(0.56gr, 18mm, 2h.).
Provenance
Found near Cotham, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0077.
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