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Auction 18011  27 Mar 2018
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Lot 22

Starting price: 5600 GBP
Price realized: 17 000 GBP
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(x) Mercia, Cynethrith (wife of Offa), Penny, 0.63g, 3h, light coinage (c.779-792/3), Canterbury, Eoba, eoba, lozenge shaped o, in field before diademed and draped bust right, rev. + cynedryd regin around uncial m in beaded inner circle (Chick 144b this coin; N.339; S.909), a very neat coin with an unusually vigourous portrait in high relief, glossy dark smooth surfaces, good very fine, a great rarity.
Provenance:
Purchased from Spink, April 1991
Found on Canvey Island, Essex, February 1991 (EMC 2001.0962)
Estimate: £8,000.00 - £10,000.00
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