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Auction: 19026 - The Williams Collection Part IV - Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 466

(x) Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, 1.10g, 12h, light coinage with portrait, c.779-792/3, London, Winoth, .·.+ offa rex +.·., small diademed bust with heart shaped truncation, breaking beaded inner circle, rev. u / in / o / d, in angles of a lozenge cross fleury with double fleurs, a plain saltire in centre (Chick 72d this coin; Chick, Yorkshire Numismatist 1997, pl. I, no. 2 this coin; N.302; S.905), bust a little flat, otherwise good fine

provenance:
Spink Numismatic Circular, February 1992, no. 133
Found at Hadleigh Downs, Essex, October 1991
EMC 1996.0169

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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,000