Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 1241. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796 AD. AR Penny (1.23 gm). Struck circa 787-792. Canterbury mint; Ethelmod, moneyer. \ : m\ :+:O:F.FA• \REX\ in two lunettes / ÷[+]÷ :+:ED:EEL \M:D\ in three lines divided by dotted lines. Blunt 95; SCBI 20 (Mack), 570; BMC -; North 322; SCBC 908. Toned, good VF, slight flan crack. Rare Offa penny, with an impressive pedigree linking it to the finest English collections of the past two centuries. ($2000)

Purchased Spink, June 1990. Ex D. Dupree Collection; A. E. Bagnell Collection; Carlyon-Britton Collection (Sotheby, 18th November 1913), lot 273; Murdoch Collection (Sotheby, 31 March 1903), lot 17; Montagu Collection (Sotheby, 18-23 November 1985), lot 208; Marsham Collection (Sotheby, 19 November 1888), lot 61; 1874 Delgany hoard.