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Early Medieval coin: penny of Offa
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Robert Collins, 2011-09-22 10:11:18
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Early Medieval coin: penny of Offa
Description
English: An early-medieval penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Light Coinage (c.765-92), 'standard obverse' with quatrefoil reverse (North 271var; Chick 106var), mint: Canterbury; moneyer: Eoba. Ref: North 1994: 84; Chick 2010; Naismith and Naylor 2012, no. 12..

A variant of North 271/Chick 106 exhibiting a rouind O on both obverse and reverse rather than the standard lozenge-shaped O.

Depicted place (County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Date between 765 and 792
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FindID: 463615
Old ref: NCL-AF9BE4
Filename: IMG_7720.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
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Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/346948/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/463615
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Object location53° 13′ 06.96″ N, 0° 19′ 13.72″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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