Lot 453
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Offa (757-796), silver Penny, an imitation of a South-Eastern mint, light coinage (c.765-792) non-portrait type (CEB 11), beaded cross with O-F-R-M and pellets in angles, rev. cross with annulets with pellets at terminals, large annulet with five pellets at centre, E-O-B-A in angles, 1.02g. (V 4524; this coin is discussed in D M Metcalf, Artistic Borrowing, Imitation and Forgery in the Eighth Century, in Hambürger Beiträgezur Numismatik XX (1966), p.379-92, pl.17, 13), good very fine, extremely rare, an interesting contemporary Continental imitation
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Offa (757-796), silver Penny, an imitation of a South-Eastern mint, light coinage (c.765-792) non-portrait type (CEB 11), beaded cross with O-F-R-M and pellets in angles, rev. cross with annulets with pellets at terminals, large annulet with five pellets at centre, E-O-B-A in angles, 1.02g. (V 4524; this coin is discussed in D M Metcalf, Artistic Borrowing, Imitation and Forgery in the Eighth Century, in Hambürger Beiträgezur Numismatik XX (1966), p.379-92, pl.17, 13), good very fine, extremely rare, an interesting contemporary Continental imitation

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Offa (757-796), silver Penny, an imitation of a South-Eastern mint, light coinage (c.765-792) non-portrait type (CEB 11), beaded cross with O-F-R-M and pellets in angles, rev. cross with annulets with pellets at terminals, large annulet with five pellets at centre, E-O-B-A in angles, 1.02g. (V 4524; this coin is discussed in D M Metcalf, Artistic Borrowing, Imitation and Forgery in the Eighth Century, in Hambürger Beiträgezur Numismatik XX (1966), p.379-92, pl.17, 13), good very fine, extremely rare, an interesting contemporary Continental imitation
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.