Light coinage. Obv: profile diademed and draped bust left breaking the inner pellet circle with +OFFA+ +REX legend with inverted R. Rev: +EAL / dNOd legend in two lines with pellets in angles of initial cross and with fleur-ended beaded line with pellets in angles between for the moneyer Ealdnoth at London mint. Very fine. The only recorded example for these dies.

PROVENANCE:
Baldwin, 1999 (with ticket).
Lord Stewartby collection sale 1, lot 84 (with copy of auction catalogue page).
Acquired AMR Coins (with ticket).
Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10966-179983.

PUBLISHED:
Chick, Derek, The Coinage of Offa and his Contemporaries, BNS Special Publication No.6, Spink, 2010, coin no.34a (this coin).

LITERATURE:
S. 905; N. -; Chick 34a.