LOT 2555
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Offa - East Anglia / Wihtred - Light Coinage AR Penny 760-792 A.D.
Light coinage. Obv: hollow cross with incurved sides and lozenge ends with quadruple pellets within and O FF AR EX in angles for OFFA REX. Rev: hollow lozenge with fleurs at cusps and cross within with +P IH TR E in angles for the moneyer PIHTRE or Wihtred at an uncertain East Anglia mint. Near extremely fine. A new type for the moneyer and thus unique.(1.20 grams.).
ProvenanceFound near Lower Hatcheston, Suffolk, UK, April 2020.
Accompanied by copies of the British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), reference SE-87E18C and Early Medieval Corpus, reference 2020.0196 records.
See British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference SF-87E18C (this coin); see Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference EMC 2020.0196.
LiteratureS. 907; N. 336; cf. Chick 183 for generally similar dies.
FootnotesThe EMC record includes the comment 'A new type for the East Anglian moneyer Wihtred, cf. Chick 183'; although this coin shares some features and details with other coins of this moneyer and of others, these dies are distinctly different from any others previously recorded.
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LOT 2555
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Offa - East Anglia / Wihtred - Light Coinage AR Penny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series K Type 33 - Wolf Head AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Obv: profile bust with cross before. Rev: wolf head with long tongue. 0.97 grams.
Very fine. Scarce.
Found Kelveden, Essex, UK. Accompanied by a copy of British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme record, SF-2359E7. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Offa - East Anglia / Wihtred - Light Coinage AR Penny 760-792 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
Light coinage. Obv: hollow cross with incurved sides and lozenge ends with quadruple pellets within and O FF AR EX in angles for OFFA REX. Rev: hollow lozenge with fleurs at cusps and cross within with +P IH TR E in angles for the moneyer PIHTRE or Wihtred at an uncertain East Anglia mint. 1.20 grams.
Near extremely fine. A new type for the moneyer and thus unique.
Found near Lower Hatcheston, Suffolk, UK, April 2020. Accompanied by copies of the British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), reference SE-87E18C and Early Medieval Corpus, reference 2020.0196 records.
The EMC record includes the comment 'A new type for the East Anglian moneyer Wihtred, cf. Chick 183'; although this coin shares some features and details with other coins of this moneyer and of others, these dies are distinctly different from any others previously recorded. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Series A Type 2a - Portrait AR Sceatta 680-710 A.D.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
Obv: profile radiate bust right with TIC before and row of four pellets behind. Rev: TOTII standard with rounded horns with trefoil of pellets in centre and reversed IPTTA legend, within a beaded border. 1.15 grams.
Extremely fine; as struck.
Ex late John Cross collection, Canterbury, UK. Acquired Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3 October 2021, lot 569 (part). Property of two Kent sisters, by gift from their parents.
