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English: A silver penny of Offa of Mercia, one of the Saxon coins decorating the margins of Moll's map of Huntingdonshire, sold separately and as Map 24 in his Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales..., copied from Figure 13 of Tabula I Nummi Saxonici on Page 135 of Obadiah Walker's "Notes on the Saxon Coins" appended to the English translation of William Camden's Britannica.

Notes:
Legend: + OFFA + REX + [Offa Rex, King Offa]
Walker's note states "13, 14. The thirteenth and fourteenth belong to Offa, the Mercian King; the reverse being the same in both; who seems to have been a nobleman, and not a mintmaster. Three of that name, an. 803 subscribed the synod at Clovesho, and another succeeded St. Boniface in the Archbishopric of Mainz. Offa having slain Beornred, an. 557, reigned over the Mercians: a prince of great courage and success in arms; but not just nor virtuous: for he basely murdered Ethelbriht King of the East Angles, (enticing him to his palace that he might marry his daughter) and seized upon his kingdom. He had much entercourse, and at length friendship also with Charles the Great. He drew a trench of wondrous length from sea to sea, separating the Mercians from the Welsh, part whereof remains visible to this day. He was the first who granted a perpetual tax to the Pope out of every house in his kingdom, at his being at Rome; and gave very bountifully, after his return, to the clergy, in penance for his sins: he died an. 794."
London: Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux-Court in the Strand; Tho. Bowles, Print and Map-Seller near the Chapter-House in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Bowles Print and Map-Seller over-against Stocks-Market. 1724.