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Auction 14007  17-18 December 2014
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Lot 478

Estimate: 3800 GBP
Price realized: 3800 GBP
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Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, 1.21g, light coinage, East Anglia, c.780/5-c.92/3, portrait type, Oethelred, diademed and draped bust right of accomplished style, diadem tail extends into legend?, distinctive 'hatched' drapery which breaks legend, +xer+affo+, chevron-barred a in this retrograde legend, rev. oe / –e / lr / ed, in angles of cross-crosslet with lozenge containing cross of petals on annulet at centre (Chick. obverse unlisted / 174a; Blunt 71 var.; N. 305 var.; S.906), dark staining to obverse, some pitting in areas, otherwise a particularly pleasing and sharp obverse, nearly extremely fine/very fine, full and unchipped, this obverse die unique.
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