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Kings of Mercia, Offa (757-796), Penny, Light coinage, London or Canterbury, Tirwald, + OFFA REX, rosette, rev. TIRWALD within leaves of quatrefoil, trefoil in each angle, 1.19g/6h (cf. CEB 79/80; cf. N 285; S 905). Nearly very fine, the type and moneyer extremely rare £1,500-2,000

EMC 2009.0368. This is only the second known specimen of the type; the first was found at Elford, Staffordshire, in 1996