Kings of Mercia - Offa (757-796) Penny
| Ref 27/3 | Price £3,000.00 |
Wt. 1.08g., Light Coinage (c.780-c.792), Group II, non portrait type (London and Canterbury), moneyer Ethelnoth, OFFA/REX (lozenge-shaped O) in two lones, in lunettes, divided by a short beaded bar with crosses at each end, rev. EPEL/NOP divided by a beaded bar, fleurs at each end, crosses above and below, Chick 119b; Blunt 73; N.277; S.904, very rare, light edge cut,
Ex. Lockett 3574; Dudman 224 and perhaps Borghesi 1365.
VF
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Kings of Mercia - Offa (757-796) Penny
| Ref 27/4 | Price £3,250.00 |
Wt. 1.11g., Light Coinage (c.780-c.792), Group II, non portrait type (London and Canterbury), moneyer Eoba, +O/FF/AR/EX in the angles of a long cross botonnée with a small lobe in each angle, rev. E/O/B/A in the angles of Celtic cross with fleurs on limbs, a cross in centre, a pellet in each angle, Chick 117; Blunt 50; N.276; S.904, very rare,
VF
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Edward the Elder (899-924) Penny
| Ref 26/5 | Price £875.00 |
Wt.1.34g. two-line type, HT 1, East Anglian, small cross, EADVVEARD EX, rev. DEAO OEOID in two lines, SCBI 26, pl.vii; N 649; S.1087, a little chipped around edge, otherwise
a bold VF
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Offa (757-796) Penny
| Ref 28/8 | Price £2,250.00 |
Wt. 1.12g., light coinage C.779-92, non-portrait type, LONDON, moneyer Ealhmund, long cross pattée with cross of pellets enclosed by a quatrefoil in centre, garnish of pellets in field, O/F/R/M in angles of cross, uncial M, all letters contracted, rev. +ALHMVND: around heavy beaded border, small cross pattée with a pellet in each angle, pellets in legend, Chick 6a var/41-2 var; same; Blunt 8; N.-; S.904, unique, a new type for the reign, small edge chip at 3 o'clock, light porous surfaces, but good metal, well struck,
Found West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, August 2014, Spink Auction 227, Lot 476.
good VF
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Kings of Wessex, and all England - Aethelstan (924-939) Penny
| Ref 27/9 | Price £1,650.00 |
Wt.1.37 g., two line type, North Eastern I mint; moneyer Nother, ÆÐEL•STAN REX small cross pattée / NOÐER MONE in two lines; +++ between, trefoils above and below. Blunt, Aethelstan 396; SCBI 34 (BM), 225 var.; N. 668; S.1089, lightly toned, moneyer extremely rare, believed nine examples known,
good VF
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