Great Britain Silver & Bronze Coins

Sale 134    20–24 Nov 2023   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 1388    SESSION 7 (9.30AM WEDNESDAY 22ND NOV)    Great Britain Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $1,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,900

KINGS OF MERCIA, Offa, (757-796), light coinage, c.784-87, penny without portrait, Canterbury Mint, (1.18 g), moneyer OSMOD, obv. long cross botonne over saltire botonnee, +o / ff / ar / ex in angles of cross, rev. o / sm / o / d in angles of long cross botonnee with large annulet enclosing a saltire at the centre, some dispersed pellets in field, (S.904, N.264 var). A field find with surface porosity, significant edge knock at 9 o'clock and with some crimping elsewhere on periphery, the fields and legend mostly well discernable, nearly very fine and very rare.

Ex S.J.Green Collection. Previously Spink Auction 1504, lot 515.
Found at Grazeley, Berkshire, 4 September 2013 (export permit obtained). Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, British Museum, ref. BUC-5FCC31. Not recorded in BNJ Coin Register 2013-2015. With collector's tickets.

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