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MEDIEVAL COIN
787
Medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia. It is a Group II coin without a portrait, c.787-c.792, and the obverse contains the King’s name across the field. Obverse: OFFA REX in two lunettes divided by a line of pellets with a cross at each end. Reverse: ETHELNOTH in two lines divided by a line of pellets with an ornament at each end. Moneyer: Ethelnoth. It measures 17mm in diameter, weighs 1.19g and has a die axis of 6. North, J. J. 1980. English Hammered Coinage, Volume 1: Early Anglo-Saxon to Henry III c.600-1272, page 59, ref. 286.
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