Rare Offa Penny

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1648. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (1.38 g, 12h). Heavy coinage. London or Canterbury mint; Winoth, moneyer. Struck 792-796. + . OFFA between two pelleted lines; \ m \ above, \ REX (3 pellets around X) below / VINNOTh in Runic around bone-shaped ornament with pelleted interior; pellets around. Blunt 105; SCBI 20 (Mack), 572 var. (position of pellets); BMC 56 var. (same); North 326; SCBC 907. Good VF, toned, old light scratches on edge at 9 o’clock on reverse.