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Auction 146  8-9 May 2024
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The Spang Collection of The Kings & Queens of England. Mercia. Offa, 757-796.
Penny, AR 18 mm. 1.22 g., Light coinage, portrait type, circa 785-792/3. Canterbury mint, Peohtweald, moneyer. Draped bust r., +OFFA REX +. Rev. PE HT VA L? in angles of a Celtic cross with a long cross fleurée over small saltire cross of petals. Chick 128. North 295. SCBC 905.
Very rare. Lovely old cabinet tone, deposits on reverse, otherwise good very fine

A collection of the Kings and Queens of England, from the Wessex beginnings of King Ecgberht through his dynasty that fought the Viking Great Army and eventually united the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchal kingdoms into England. A complete set of Kings and Queens, with a Danish penny of Swein Forkbeard who was crowned Christmas Day 1013 but died of his wounds months later, a remarkable Groat of Henry IV who is often missing from collections, or seen in fractions of marginal grade, an authentic Groat of Edward V in the correct die chain, the extremely rare Edward Boar's head Groat which is the initial issue, for just a fortnight, of Richard III and marks the young princes sent to the Tower. Many of these coins are of the highest condition, many perhaps finest known. A star-spangled collection of charming coins of England, by an American collector who loves history.
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