The Tom May Collection - British Silver & Bronze
Lot 2314 Session 8 (2.30pm Wednesday) The Tom May Collection - British Silver & Bronze
Estimate $2,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,500
KINGS OF MERCIA, Offa, (757-796), London silver portrait penny, light coinage, 779-792, ETHELVALD (S.905; N.310; Blunt 57; Chick 10m), (1.14 grams). Clipped bottom edge, slightly porous as usual, good fine and very rare.
Ex Sotheby Sale 23 March 1990 (lot 371) and Spink NC July-August 1990, no.4228. See 'Australasian Coin and Banknote' magazine, Yearbook 2010, p55, fig.4.
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