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Auction: 14007 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 480

East Anglia, Eadwald, (c.796-98/800), Penny, 1.40g, East Anglian mint, probably Ipswich, Wihtred, king's name in three lines, pelleted bar dividing rex / +eadva / dl, l reversed, dispersed pellets in field, rev. ui / ht / re / d in angles of cross fourchée with lozenge containing cross of pellets at centre, all surrounded by a tressure with pelleted cusps (Naismith E4b - same dies; N.433; S.947), a field find, small peripheral flan knock at 8 o' clock, excessively rare unchipped and so full of flan, good very fine, a very rare issue of this virtually unknown East Anglian king

provenance
Found near Eye, Suffolk, August 2012
Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, British Museum,
ref. SF-BCA6B5
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2012.0204

Of Eadwald and his East Anglian coinage, Naismith, p.35 states; 'At the outset of this period, in 796, East Anglia came under the rule of a very shadowy ruler named Eadwald. Like several other pre-Viking rulers of East Anglia, he is known solely from his coins. Continuity of moneyers and coin-design strongly suggest that he seized power at a time of the death of Offa in 796: all his moneyers produced a coinage based on the same three-line obverse design as Offa's late Heavy coinage, and some reverse designs were carried over from the earlier reign as well.'.

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