Offa Penny, Non-portrait type, light coinage, Canterbury, Tirwald, ex English Doctor all on blue coloured pad

all on blue coloured pad

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Offa Penny, Non-portrait type, light coinage, Canterbury, Tirwald, ex English Doctor all on blue coloured padOffa (757 796), King of Mercia, silver Penny, light coinage (c. 780 792), Canterbury Mint, moneyer Tirwald, King's name surrounding central ring of pellets within a serpent wreath, +OFFA REX, rev. four lobed fleur like cross with moneyer name in angles surrounding, initial and terminal letters share same angle, T IR VV AL D, weight 1. 20g (BMC ; Chick type 131; Blunt ; N. ; S. 904). Unevenly toned, a bold very fine and extremely rare, only one example