Triton XIX, Lot: 872. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (18mm, 1.20 g, 7h). Light coinage, portrait type. Mint in East Anglia; Wihtred, moneyer. Struck circa 779-792/3. + ◊FFA ·: + REX +, bare headed bust right / +P IH TR Ed in angles of cross fleury with lozenge centre, saltire in lozenge. Chick 179a (this coin); SCBI –; BMC –; North –; SCBC 906. VF, lightly pitted, otherwise an unusually full round coin. Very rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection, purchased from John Philpotts, 10 February 2014. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CII.3 (April 1994), no. 2138. Found East Anglia, 1993.