Ex Stack, Ryan, Grantley, and Lawrence Collections

434, Lot: 560. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (16.5mm, 1.11 g, 7h). Light coinage; portrait type. Canterbury mint; Æthelweald, moneyer. Phase IIb-c, circa 785-792/3. · + · Θ·FFẠ :· R:·E·X· :· + :·, diademed bust right / Єð IL VA L∂ divided by four jewel-like lobes, cross botonée with four petals in saltire. Chick 10f (this coin); SCBI 30 (American), 187 = SCBI 20 (Mack), 562 (same dies); North 310; SCBC 905. Fine, porous, minor flan split.

From the Londinium Collection. Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s, 22 April 1999), lot 287; Finn FPL (Spring 1994), no. 22; V. J. E. Ryan Collection (Part I, Glendining, 28 June 1950), lot 615; Lord Grantley Collection (Part III, Glendining, 22 March 1944), lot 824; L. A. Lawrence Collection (first collection, sold privately to Lord Grantley).