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 - Continental Issues - Series E - TOTII Porcupine AR Sceatta 695-740 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Obv: degraded 'porcupine' bust. Rev: standard with TOTII within and crosses around. 0.90 grams.
Very fine.
Found Berkshire, UK. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Archbishops of Canterbury - Ceolnoth / Hebeca - Inscribed Open Cross AR Penny 854-864 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,755
BMC type 30. Obv: facing tonsured bust extending to edge of flan with +CEOLNOÐ ARCHIEP legend. Rev: open long cross with +HEBE / CA MO across and upwards and N E T A in angles (thus reading HEBECA MONETA) for the moneyer Hebeca at Canterbury mint. 1.08 grams.
Near as struck; split to flan. Rare.
Found Nottinghamshire, UK. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Continental Issues - Series E - Porcupine TOTII AR Sceatta 695-740 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Obv: degraded 'porcupine' head. Rev: standard with TOTII within and crosses around. S. 790. 1.06gr, 12.04mm, 4h.
Near extremely fine.
Found Berkshire, UK.
