Kingdom of Mercia

Wikipedia entry for the Kingdom of Mercia

 

 

Offa

King of Mercia c.757-c.796
Wikipedia entry for Offa
Image Description Notes

 

 

  • 765-792
  • Penny
  • TIR[VVAL]D
  • Light coinage
  • 0.63gm/16.80mm
  • S 0904
  • N 275/1
  • Found near Blandford Forum, Dorset, between March 2008 and March 2009

 

 

Match to EMC 2004.0070; Possibly the third known from these dies, see note with above EMC entry.

 

 

Coenwulf

King of Mercia c.796-c.821
Wikipedia entry for Coenwulf
Image Description Notes

 

 

  • 805-810
  • Penny
  • E[ABA] MONETA
  • Cross and Wedges
  • Group IIa
  • BLS 25
  • Naismith C25b
  • 0.95gm/19.15mm
  • S 0916
  • N 0344
  • EX: Noonans Auction 323(29 April 2025), lot 28

 

 

Canterbury; SCBI 67-British Museum: 135

 

 

  • c.815-c.821
  • Penny
  • OBA + MON + ETA
  • Cross Moline
  • Group IV
  • BLS 65
  • Naismith C41.2
  • 1.25gm/20.84mm
  • S 0915
  • N 0352
  • Purchased from a private collector(2007); previously Mike Vosper.

 

Canterbury; SCBI 1-Fitzwilliam: 399, 400, SCBI 2-Glasgow: 340, SCBI 21-Yorkshire: 955; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.1, page 36, coin 75 for a probable die match.

 

 

Beornwulf

King of Mercia c.823-825
Wikipedia entry for Beornwulf
Image Description Notes

 

 

  • c.823-825
  • Penny
  • [EACG]A MONETO
  • BMC 114; Be 2-4; Type II
  • BLS 2b
  • Naismith E21b
  • 0.80gm/14.20mm
  • S 0929
  • N 0397

 

 

SCBI 2-Glasgow: 353(die duplicate); Possibly less than 75 coins of this reign are known to exist and of those less than ten of this moneyer.

 

 

Burgred

King of Mercia 852-874
Wikipedia entry for Burgred.
Image Description Notes

 

 

  • 852-874
  • Penny
  • [H]EAELF MONETA
  • Lunette a
  • 0.68gm/13.10mm
  • S 0938
  • N 0423

 

 

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  • 863-868
  • Penny
  • VVINE MONETA
  • Lunette c
  • 1.25gm/19.80mm
  • S 0940
  • N 0425
  • EX: CNG Auction 66(19 May 2004), lot 1969; R.P. Mack Collection(Not sold in either of the two auctions of his collection. Most likely sold with the remaining coins not in the two auctions through the Numismatic Circular); P.W.P Carlyon-Britton Collection, Second Portion, sold at Sotheby's(20 November 1916), lot 892d(Purchased by Baldwins); 1882 London Waterloo Bridge Find

 

 

SCBI 20-Mack:628(this coin); See N. Heywood, ‘The Kingdom and Coins of Burgred,’ in BNJ III (1906), p. facing 59, coin 12, supposedly this coin. See English Coins in the British Museum, v.1, page 64, coin 390 for a probable die match.

 

 

  • 852-874
  • Penny
  • DVDDA MONETA
  • Lunette d
  • 0.80gm/19.20mm
  • S 0941
  • N 0426
  • EX: Lloyd Bennett(2009)

 

 

; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.1, page 54, coin 244 for a probable die match.

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