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Auction 18011  27 Mar 2018
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Lot 18

Starting price: 1400 GBP
Price realized: 5000 GBP
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(x) Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, 1.18g, 12h, light coinage (c.780/5-792/3), East Anglia, Eadberht, t offa + rex, legend begins at 7 o'clock, the first cross is a t, the o is a lozenge with pellet, crude diademed and draped bust right breaking beaded inner circle, rev. ea / rp / er / ht, the first r retrograde, in arms of a lozenge cross, in the centre a small cross with pellet in each angle (Chick 163a this coin; N.305.1; S.906), the surfaces a little rough but of good metal, good very fine, a typical East Anglian style portrait and a great rarity, the only coin by this moneyer listed by Chick and so apparently unique.
Provenance:
Sotheby, 10 March 1989, lot 703
Found by Mr J Blows on farmland at Sutton (near Sutton Hoo), three miles south east of Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1989
Estimate: £2,000.00 - £2,500.00
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