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Auction: 9026 - Ancient. English, Foreign Coins & Com. Medals
Lot: 6

Anglo-Saxon, Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, 1.22g, light coinage, Blunt group 1, East Anglian mint, Eadnoth, four lobes cruciform, o/f/f/a around with a letter in each angle, pellets in fields, rev. panel containing runic letter reading eadnoth, two arches above and below linked by a vertical bar to the panel (Chick (forthcoming) 165b; Blunt -; N. -; S.907), an historically and numismatically interesting type, crack running through flan, edge chip, much of design flat but visible, fair, an extremely rare type for Offa, the only example outside a museum Estimate £ 300-400 Eadnoth is a rare moneyer for Offa and was unknown to Blunt when he published his classification in 1961. Since then finds have emerged with two distinct types known for him from four examples. This coin is one of two known for one of these types, the other being in the Fitzwilliam Museum, but the obverse design differs slightly from this.

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£400