434, Lot: 561. Estimate $500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Cynethryth. Wife of Offa, 757-796. AR Penny (16mm, 0.96 g, 12h). Light coinage, non-portrait type. Canterbury mint; Eoba, moneyer. Phase IIb-c, circa 785-792/3. + C·FNEð·RF·ð· R·EGINΛ, barred Mercian m surrounded by pellets / +E ◊ B A on limbs of a cross of lobes with internal pellets; fleurs in angles. Naismith Coinage 47 = EMC 2008.0332 = PAS BERK-328187 (this coin); Chick 148; North 340; SCBC 910. Near VF, deeply toned, ragged and wavy flan, deposit on revere. Very rare, one of only 11 noted by Chick and Naismith, two additional in EMC.

From the Londinium Collection. Found near Ewelme, Oxfordshire, by 2008.