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LOT 3495
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Cynethryth (wife of Offa) AR Penny. 757-796.
Canterbury mint; Eoba, moneyer. Light coinage, portrait type. Struck circa 784/5. ·: ·: Є:◊·BA, draped bust to right; to left, Latin cross / ✠ CfN·E∂Rf.ð REGIN around barred Mercian ᙏ in pelleted circle. SCBI 67 (BM), 654-8 (all monograms placed at 12h); North 339; SCBC 909. Good Fine. Apparently unique variety with Mercian monogram placed at 9h.(1.08gr, 16mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFound Harston, Cambridgeshire, UK, in the 1990s.
Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2024.0425.
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LOT 3495
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Cynethryth (wife of Offa) AR Penny.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900
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Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Eanred AE Styca. 810-841.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Monne, moneyer; struck 810-830. ⧾ EANRED REX around central cross pattée / ⧾ MONNE around central motif. North 186; SCBC 862. 0.95gr, 12mm, 3h.
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Anglo-Saxon. Eclectic Sceattas AR Sceatt. Circa 710-760.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £299
Series 2c; BM type 14. 'Celtic Cross' Group. +LVNDONIA(retrograde), diademed bust to left / Voided Celtic cross with central and terminal pellets; rosette in quarters. SCBI, 69 -; M427 II (IV, bust to right); SCBC 822. 0.86gr, 11mm, 11h.
Fine. Very rare. No other examples on CoinArchives.
Found Tendring, Essex. Property of an Essex gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Secondary Sceattas AR Sceatt. Circa 710/5-725/35.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Series U; type 23b. Female figure standing facing in crescent boat with pellet finials, head to right, holding long cross pommée either side in enormous hands / Disjointed full-bodied and long-necked bird with pellet eye and upward curled wing, striding to right in foliage and pecking berries. Cf. M445; SCBC 816. 0.95gr, 12mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
Found Tendring, Essex. Property of an Essex gentleman.
