Triton XIX, Lot: 871. Estimate $4000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (17mm, 1.09 g, 12h). Light coinage, portrait type. London mint; Winoth, moneyer. Struck circa 779-792/3. + OFFA REX +, diademed bust right; triangle of three pellets flanking / U IN ◊ ð in angles of cross fleury, saltire in center. Chick 72b = EMC 1996.0168 = Coin Register 1996, 168 (this coin); SCBI 20 (Mack), 567; BMC –; North 302; SCBC 905. VF, slightly pitted. Very rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection, purchased from Mark Rasmussen, 19 August 2008. Found at Croxton, near St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, November 1989.