Watch List notes:

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (18mm, 1.21 g, 3h). Heavy coinage. London mint; Ethelnoth, moneyer. Struck circa 792/3-796. + ◊FFA in central panel, (Mercian m) and REX in lunettes above and below / + EÞ:EL:Þ/N◊ in central panel and lower lunette; cross flanked by pellets in upper lunette. Chick 235; North 322; SCBC 908. Some porosity. VF. Rare.


From the James & Martha Robertson Collection. Ex Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection (Triton XX, 10 January 2017), lot 1488, purchased from A H Baldwin's, July 1999.