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Auction: 8012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 123

Frankish Kingdom, Carolingians, Pepin the Short, 9751-768), Denier, 1.15g, Dorestadt, cross above npipi, bar below, rev. rp abbreviation for rex pipinus, trefoil of pellets at centre, bar above, cursive script to left (cf. Grierson and Blackburn, MEC I, 719; Engel-Serrure, fig. 358), chipped, an important and extremely rare find from a English location, good very fine Estimate £ 1,000-2,000 provenance Found in 2007 near Princes Risborough, Bucks. Finds of early Carolingian Deniers in England are extremely rare, this being only the sixth recorded. Others, none identical with this, have been found at Repton, West Hythe, Richborough, Seaford (E. Sussex) and Bere Regis, Dorset. These Deniers were the precedent for the coinage of Offa of Mercia and this is only the second example to have been found within the boundaries of his kingdom.

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