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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 72

Archbishops of Canterbury, Jaenberht (766-92), with Offa as overlord, after 775, Penny, 1.22g., Canterbury, OFFA REX, in two lines, divided by beaded bar terminating with fleurs, horizontal cross above, and below, rev. +IENBERHT AREP, small cross pommÉe within a petal in each angle within plain inner-circle (Chick 155d – this coin; N.2234; S.882), lightly toned, nearly very fine, a good example of this rare issue, extremely rare

PROVENANCE
L.R. Stack, Sotheby 22-23 April 1999, 252
Found at Lodge farm, Cobham Hall, near Rochester, 1989
Recorded EMC 1999.1002

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