BRITISH COINS, Offa, King of Mercia, Silver Portrait Penny, light coinage (780-792), Canterbury, moneyer Ealmund, diademed bust right to edge of coin, head within segmented linear circle, OFFA REX MERCIOR, rev cross pommée with trefoils in angles, within lozenge compartment with incurved sides, +EALMVND, 1.06g (Chick 47a; Blunt 45; N 308; S 905). Well toned, a little roughness to upper obverse edge, reverse a little off-centre, some weakness only to high points, a pleasing portrait, very fine.
ex G C Drabble Collection, Glendining's, 4 July 1939, lot 320, sold for £16/10/-
ex Spink Numismatic Circular, October 1967, item 6446
ex Patrick Finn List 15, Spring 1999, item 75
Estimate: £3500-4000