Penny Cynethryth (Wife of Offa) c.757-796, Light Coinage Canterbury Mint, moneyer Eoba, S.909, North 339, Chick 138c (this coin), weight 1.12 grammes, About VF, well-centred with a few very small pitting marks, extremely rare, Cynethryth being the only Anglo-Saxon queen to have her name and portrait on coinage
PennyOffa, King of Mercia, Bust F variant, East Anglia, Obverse: Bust right OFFA REX, Reverse: Floriate Cross with lozenge centre, moneyer Wintred as S.906, North 302/1, 1.06 grammes, GVF on a full round flan, very rare thus
Offa. Kings of Mercia. Ar penny. C, 757-796. Light coinage, Canterbury, Eoba, Obv; o f f a, crosses between, retrograde r in central panel. Rev; e o b a in lobes of Celtic cross, small cross and pellets in centre. Chick 111e, this coin; CEB 18; N 276; S 907. Surfaces porous, very rare. 1.14g. About fine
PennyOffa, King of Mercia (c.780-792) Light coinage, S.904 Obverse ornate quadrilateral, Reverse ALH-MUN in two lines, NVF with an edge nick, a detector find. Rare
PennyOffa (757-796) King of Mercia Heavy Coinage S.908 Chick 203, moneyer Ciolhard with the moneyer's name inverted divided by a beaded bar and enclosed by lunettes with fleurs in the junctions, weight 1.20 grammes, somewhat similar in overall design, and slightly short of the grade of the piece offered in London Coins Auction A129 6/8/2010 Lot 1085, which realised £3000, but this piece without the dots within the letters of the moneyers name. This believed to be only the second example of this Chick type, the first being recorded in 2000. VF with some darker toning on the obverse, some loss of flan between 1 and 4 o'clock on the obverse
PennyOffa Light coinage EHEL NOT (Ethelnoth) Canterbury Mint (N.286 var, CEB 53 var S.904 var) VF with some light porosity. Dark surface mark to obverse. Extremely rare, especially without chips or cracks as so often seen with Offa pennies. This sub-variety differs from those referenced in having a solid bar which divides the moneyers name. Possibly unpublished
PennyOffa King of Mercia 757-796 Light Coinage CEB 59-60 S.905North 277Canterbury mint, moneyer Pehtwald 1.3 grammes, Good Fine with an edge chip, Rare (bought C.J.Martin 1985 £750) Refer to E.M.C. 1992.0257 or BNJ Coin Register 1992, No.257
PennyOffa 757-796 King of Mercia Heavy Coinage Blunt Group 111 London Moneyer Ciolhard with the moneyer's name inverted divided by a beaded bar and enclosed by lunettes with fleurs in the junctions, bold VF pleasant toning a couple of small field knocks hardly detract, rare
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