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№ 159

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24 April 2019

Hammer Price:
£1,300

Kings of Mercia, Offa (757-96), Penny, Light coinage, East Anglia, Eadnoth, o f f a between pellets in angles of cross, the leaf-shaped limbs decorated with chevrons, rev. ea d n o d in runes within a beaded tablet, a spray of stalks and berries above and below, 1.21g/2h (EMC 2018.0182; Chick 165; Blunt –; N 332; S 904). Struck on a neat round flan with a small edge crack at 4 o’clock, otherwise very fine and extremely rare; apparently the third known specimen £1,500-£2,000