271, Lot: 189. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (19mm, 1.40 g, 9h). Heavy coinage. Non-Portrait type. Lundene (London) mint; Ludaman, moneyer. Struck 792/3-796. ·+· m :+:/: ◊FFA :+:/·: RE·X· in three lines divided by two beaded bars / P·И·G·◊/M:◊:И in two lines divided by beaded bar with fleur at each end. Chick 210a (this coin cited and illustrated); SCBI -; BMC -; North 327 (moneyer read as Winoth); SCBC 908. Good VF, toned. Great metal for issue. Extremely rare type and moneyer.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s London 9443, 22 April 1999), lot 295; Spink Numismatic Circular XCVI.4 (May 1988), no. 2855; Found near Scopwick, Lincolnshire, 1988 (EMC 1999.1006).