Pleasing Offa Portrait

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1701. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (17.5mm, 1.26 g, 2h). Light coinage. Portrait type. Lundene (London) mint; Æthelweard, moneyer. Struck circa 785-792/3. + : O·FFA · R·EX +, bust right; ornamental spray at end of legend / Єð · ·EL· ·VA· Ld, short cross batonnée over short cross in saltire; all within circle and set on long voided cross pommée with globule in each limb. Chick type 9; SCBI 9 (Oxford), 5 var. (arrangement of rev. legend); BMC –; North 310; SCBC 905. VF, toned.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Purchased from Davissons, May 2010.