Sale: Triton V, Lot: 2431. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $20000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Mercia. Cynethryth, wife of Offa. AR Penny (1.26 gm). ..E.O.BA, draped bust right; cross with pellet in each angle behind / .+. C.FNEd. RF. d. REGINA, within inner circle, M. North 339; C.E. Blunt, "The Coinage of Offa," in Anglo-Saxon Coins, pg. 48-49, pl. VII, 117-118; Seaby 909. EF, coppery toning. Exceptional and extremely rare. [See color plate 20] ($10,000)