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Auction 146 25 Apr 2018
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Early Anglo-Saxon Coins
BRITISH COINS, Archbishops of Canterbury, Jænberht (765-92), under Offa [c. 782-92], Penny, iaenberht are around cross with wedges in angles, rev. offa rex in lunettes divided by a beaded bar with fleurs at either end, 0.97g/11h (Chick 157d, this coin; Blunt 131; N 223; S 882). About very fine, extremely rare; only four specimens of this type listed by Chick £2,400-3,000
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Provenance: Found in a garden at Godmanstone, Cerne Abbas (Dorset), 1863; Sir John Evans Collection; Lord Grantley Collection, Part III, Glendining Auction, 22-3 March 1944, lot 891; A.E. Bagnall Collection; T.W.J.D. Dupree Collection; SNC November 1993 (7818); SNC July 1996 (3348)
BRITISH COINS, Archbishops of Canterbury, Jænberht (765-92), under Offa [c. 782-92], Penny, iaenberht are around cross with wedges in angles, rev. offa rex in lunettes divided by a beaded bar with fleurs at either end, 0.97g/11h (Chick 157d, this coin; Blunt 131; N 223; S 882). About very fine, extremely rare; only four specimens of this type listed by Chick £2,400-3,000
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Provenance: Found in a garden at Godmanstone, Cerne Abbas (Dorset), 1863; Sir John Evans Collection; Lord Grantley Collection, Part III, Glendining Auction, 22-3 March 1944, lot 891; A.E. Bagnall Collection; T.W.J.D. Dupree Collection; SNC November 1993 (7818); SNC July 1996 (3348)