CNG 97, Lot: 975. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1200. 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. Mint in East Anglia; Lulla, moneyer. Struck circa 785/90-792/3. OFFA 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 Unpublished type.

From the Collection of an Underwriter. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 87 (18 May 2011), lot 2071. Found in Lincolnshire, 2009.