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Kings of Mercia, Offa (757-96), Penny, Light Coinage, East-Anglia (Ipswich?), Wihtræd, portr...
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Kings of Mercia, Offa (757-96), Penny, Light Coinage, East-Anglia (Ipswich?), Wihtræd, portrait type, +offa + rex + around bust right with patterned tunic and flowing hair, rev. +p ih tr ed in angles of floriate cross lozenge, 1.16g/12h (Chick 178a, this coin; N 302/1; S 906). Trifling surface porosity, otherwise good very fine and struck on a full round flan; with a pleasing portrait of unusual style £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Found at Great Hockham, Norfolk, October 1995 Bt P. Finn [but not listed in the FPL] Derek Chick listed two specimens of this type (178) within his 2010 Corpus. The piece offered for sale here, and a second example, found within Essex in 2006. The latter coin is struck from an obverse die of far inferior workmanship and bares a closer resemblance to Chick’s types 179-180.
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Kings of Mercia, Offa (757-96), Penny, Light Coinage, East-Anglia (Ipswich?), Wihtræd, portrait type, +offa + rex + around bust right with patterned tunic and flowing hair, rev. +p ih tr ed in angles of floriate cross lozenge, 1.16g/12h (Chick 178a, this coin; N 302/1; S 906). Trifling surface porosity, otherwise good very fine and struck on a full round flan; with a pleasing portrait of unusual style £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Found at Great Hockham, Norfolk, October 1995 Bt P. Finn [but not listed in the FPL] Derek Chick listed two specimens of this type (178) within his 2010 Corpus. The piece offered for sale here, and a second example, found within Essex in 2006. The latter coin is struck from an obverse die of far inferior workmanship and bares a closer resemblance to Chick’s types 179-180.
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