File:Fragment of Early Medieval, Mercian, silver coin, possibly of Offa (AD757-796). (FindID 788212).jpg

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Fragment of Early Medieval, Mercian, silver coin, possibly of Offa (AD757-796).
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Edwin Wood, 2016-06-28 14:30:52
Title
Fragment of Early Medieval, Mercian, silver coin, possibly of Offa (AD757-796).
Description
English: A fragment of an early-medieval silver penny of Offa of Merica (757-796), Light Coinage (c.765-92; non-portrait type, mint: Canterbury, moneyer: Eoba (North 260; Chick 102). Refs: North 1994: 83; Chick 2010.

Obverse: [O/F]/RX/m; letters separated by a long cross with single pellets in voids and a pellet at each terminal.

Reverse: [E/O]/B/A; letters seperated by cross with pellet-in-annulet terminals; the centre of the cross has an annulet containing a pellet cross.

The coin is heavily damaged with approximately a third surviving. Coin has a pelleted border around the edge on both faces.

Length: 14.34mm
Width: 9.77mm
Weight: 0.6g
Depicted place (County of findspot) West Sussex
Date between 765 and 792
Accession number
FindID: 788212
Old ref: SUSS-55719E
Filename: SUSS55719E.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
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/572614
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/572614/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/788212
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 17 November 2020)
Object location50° 52′ 00.84″ N, 0° 27′ 35.92″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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