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Auction: 9008 - The John Marshall Collection, other Ancient, British, World Coins, Comm Medals & Books
Lot: 165

Archbishops of Canterbury, Jaenberht (766-792) with Offa as overlord, after 775, Penny, 1.10g, name around central ornament comprising four lobes cruciform around a central pellet, wedge with trefoil at end in each quarter, iaenberht arep around, rev. .offa./.rex. in closed lunettes, linked to each other by bar, horizontal long cross to right and left (N.-; S.-), a porous field find, a new reverse type for this rare issue, about fine, exceedingly rare, unique Estimate £ 500-600 provenance Found January 2009, Miningsby, Nr. Horncastle, Lincs This is a new reverse variety for this issue. The obverse matches a type already well known for Jaenberht (as N.224, S.882, Blunt 126). The reverse, with the two line inscription within lunettes and the horizontal crosses, has not been recorded before. The closest parallel to this is an obverse die used by the Canterbury moneyer Ethelnoth for Offa. This coin may suggest that this moneyer worked for the Archbishop as well as Offa.

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