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Auction: 14007 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 479

Mercia, Cynethryth, wife of Offa, non-portrait Penny, 1.29g, light coinage, c.770-92, Canterbury, Eoba, uncial letter m, contraction bar above and pellets around, within inner pelleted circle, +cfneÐrfÐ.regina, rev. +e / o / a / b, on limbs of a cross of lobes over cross fleury (Chick 148j - this coin; Blunt 124; N.340; S.910), Small area of flan loss between 8 and 10 o'clock, reverse slightly off-struck, original surfaces visible under a loup, generally well struck, good very fine and extremely rare

provenance
Found near Ongar, Essex, September 1998
Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, British Museum,
ref. KENT684
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2014.0019


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