Triton XX, Lot: 1489. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Cynethryth. Wife of Offa, 757-796. AR Penny (16mm, 1.05 g, 12h). Light coinage, portrait type. Canterbury mint; Eoba, moneyer. Struck 784/5. Draped bust right; triple-pellets to left, triple pellets and E·◊··B·A· to right / + CYNEðRУð REGIN, Mercian m in center. Chick 143; Naismith, Coinage 45 (this coin); SCBI –; BMC 61 (same rev. die); cf. North 339; SCBC 909. Good Fine, porous, cleaned. Very rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection, purchased from Spink, 12 November 2008.

The only depiction of an Anglo-Saxon queen on a coin