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Unique Variety Recorded on EMC

LOT 3495

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GBP (£) 3,000 - 4,000
EUR (€) 3,600 - 4,800
USD ($) 3,720 - 4,960

Current bid: £2,400 (+bp*)
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(2 Bids, Reserve not met)   |   Current bid: £2,400

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. 1.08gr, 16mm, 6h.

Good Fine. Apparently unique variety with Mercian monogram placed at 9h.

PROVENANCE:
Found 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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