Mercia, Offa (757-796), Heavy Coinage, South Eastern, Non-Portrait Types, Penny, 792/3-796, London, Ealhmund, + OFFA REX, in two lines, uncial M above, trefoil of pellets at beginning and end of each line, rev. EALH•M•VND (Chick 205 albeit not listed; North 328; Spink 908), small edge chip at obverse 4 o'clock, a light 'field find' porosity and patchy tone, otherwise uniformly bold for strike, a pleasing very fine, five examples recorded by Chick (as at 2010).
Provenance,
Found at Shoreham-by-Sea (West Sussex), 16 August 2020,
~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, ref. EMC 2020.0255 ~
Estimate: £1500 - £2000