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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.).
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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LOT 3495
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Cynethryth (wife of Offa) AR Penny.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900
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