Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 2122. Estimate $3000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008. Sold For $6300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (1.30 g, 3h). Light coinage; non-portrait type. Winoth, moneyer. Struck circa 780-792. + OFFA REX (pellets around), long cross with lozenge at center; within, small cross pattée with pellet in each quarter / ИIN◊đ, cross fleury with lozenge at center; within, small cross pattée with pellet in each quarter. Blunt -; SCBI -; Coin Register 1988, 152 (this coin); BMC -; North 283/1; SCBC -. Near EF, toned. Extremely rare.
From the Ross Schraeder Collection. Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s, 22 April 1999), lot 282; found near Mildenhall, Norfolk.