Offa - Century-Old Pedigree

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 2121. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $13050. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (1.19 g, 9h). Light coinage; portrait type. Ciolhard, moneyer. Struck circa 780-792. + OFFA REX +, bare-headed bust right / Coiled snake; +CI◊L above, HAR∂ below, pellets around. Blunt 23; SCBI 20 (Mack), 554; BMC 11; North 317; SCBC 905. VF, toned. Rare.

From the Ross Schraeder Collection. Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s, 22 April 1999), lot 289; Ridgemount Collection (Spink 69, 20 April 1989), lot 32; R.C. Lockett Collection (Glendining’s, 6 June 1955), lot 349; B. Roth Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 14 October 1918), lot 64; J.G. Murdoch Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 May 1903), lot 14; H. Montagu Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 18-23 November 1895), lot 191; Addington Collection.