CNG 87, Lot: 2071. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (17mm, 1.24 g, 9h). Light coinage. East Anglia mint; Lulla, moneyer. Struck circa 780/5-792/3. +OFFΛ REX around large lozenge with incurved sides and trefoil ends; beaded cross-crosslet within, trefoils flanking O / + L U L (Ls retrograde) between the arms of lobed cross with central Latin cross. Cf. Chick 173 (for obv. type and moneyer); cf. SCBC 907 (for general type). Good VF, bent flan, porous, minor edge split. Unpublished type.

Found in Lincolnshire, 2009.