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Back to previous pageAnglo-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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