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Auction: 13013 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 567

Mercia, Offa (757-96), Penny, 1.18g, portrait type, London, Dud, bust right within pelleted inner circle, offa rex+, pellets and trefoils between letters, rev. + / d / v / d divided by the arms of a lobed cross extending from an inner circie within which a cross bottonée over four petals saltire (Chick 20 - same dies as 20f, g, h; Blunt 31 (part), N.310; S.905), scuff on reverse, minor edge crimp, an uncleaned field find, very fine

provenance
Found Caistor, Lincs, 2012, UKDFD 38733
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0119

Estimate
£3,500 to £4,000