The Collection of Anglo-Saxon and Earlier Hammered Coins formed by the late Captain 'Peter' Arnot

Cuthred (798-807), kings of kent, Cuthred (798-807), Group II, portrait type, Werheard, Canterbury, diademed bust to right, cvdred rex cant, reverse cross pommée, wedges in angles, vverheardi moneta, with rounded M, 1.31 gms (N. 211; S. 877; cf BLS 23). Very fine, very rare (£800-1,000)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Anglo-Saxon and Earlier Hammered Coins formed by the late Captain 'Peter' Arnot.

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Blunt, Lyon and Stewart record nine specimens of this moneyer for the type (five in institutional collections), and five of this variety with the rounded M