Kings of Mercia, Offa, Penny, Light coinage, Canterbury, Eoba, of in pelleted square with line of pellets projecting diagonally from each corner, rm below, Latin cross above and ornaments at sides, rev. e o b a in angles of cross fleury, central annulet containing saltire of pellets, 1.12g/9h (Chick 106a, this coin [= SCBI Mack 552 = Lockett, NC 1920, pl.ix, 5 = Lawrence, SNC February 1895, col. 1049-50]; same dies as EMC 2006.0035; Blunt 17; N 271; S 904). About very fine, very rare £1,000-1,500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins.

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Provenance: L.A. Lawrence Collection [by 1895]; Lord Grantley Collection, Part III, Glendining Auction, 22-3 March 1944, lot 828 [from L.A.L.]; R.C. Lockett Collection, Part IV, Glendining Auction, 26-7 April 1960, lot 3572; R.P. Mack Collection; L.R. Stack Collection, Sotheby Auction, 22-3 April 1979, lot 272 [from Spink]