Coins and Historical Medals

Kings of Mercia, Offa, Penny, Light coinage, London, Ibba, o f r m in angles of floriate lozenge-cross, cross and pellets in centre, rev. i b b a, diademed bust right, crosses and pellets above and behind, 1.24g/12h (Chick 52; cf. Blunt 62; cf. N 300; S 905). Some surface marks and once gilded, otherwise about very fine, excessively rare £3,000-4,000

Provenance: Found in France in the 1960s.

The present coin is from different dies to the British Museum specimen