CNG 106, Lot: 1085. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (15.5mm, 1.02 g, 11h). Light coinage, portrait type. London mint; Pendræd, moneyer. Struck circa 779-792/3. Bust right; in tablet to right, OFFA, to left, REX :·; serpent-like figure above / +P ЄN ∂R ЄD in angles of cross fleury, cross at center. Chick 68c = Coin Register 1996, 166 = EMC 1996.0166 (this coin); SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 12; North 302; SCBC 905. VF, toned, some roughness, slightly ragged edge.

Ex Davissons 6 (29 February 1996), lot 230. Found near Stevenage, Hertfordshire, 1991.