Very Rare [unrecoreded dies] Offa 'Canterbury Mint' Non-Portrait Penny
Silver, 1.22 grams; 18.25 mm. Heavy coinage, non-portrait type; 792-796 AD. Obverse: Mercian ‘M’ containing two pellets and triple pellets to each side in lunette above the legend +OF.FA with pellets in the angles of the initial cross in the centre having lozenge ‘O’ and pellet centre and chevron-barred ‘A’ and with .R.EX. with pellets each side and after ‘R’ in lunette below. Reverse: cross with pellets in angles and triple pellets each side in lunette above the moneyer name EPELP NO in two lines with pellet after ‘L’ and the last two letters and associated pellets beneath in lunette for the moneyer Aethelnoth at the Canterbury mint. See Mack SCBI 20, 571 for a similar coin by the same moneyer from different dies. The dies for this coin appear to be previously unrecorded. S. 908; N. 323; CEB Type 100; BMC -; SCBI/EMC -. A very rare coin; well preserved with only the usual slightly irregular edge.