Auction Catalogue

15–18 September 2015

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Lot

№ 673

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16 September 2015

Hammer Price:
£420

Kings of Mercia, Offa (757-96), Penny, Light coinage, London, Winod, offa rex, diademed bust right, rev. g in od n (retrograde) in angles of floriate lozenge-cross, 1.08g/6h (cf. Chick 71; Blunt –; N 275; S 905). Small striking crack, otherwise fine, reverse better, the surfaces porous, very rare £400-600

The attribution to Winod is not certain, it may be a blundered reading of the recently discovered moneyer Sothing (EMC 2013.0367)