Record ID: WAW-858677
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Light Coinage, dating c.784-92, moneyer: Winoth, mint: London (North 288). Ref: North 1994: p.86. A very similar coin has been found on the PAS database here: WILT-7FF13B.
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2024
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Record ID: NARC-0743D7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver Penny of Offa of Mercia (AD 757-796). Light Coinage, non-portrait type, AD 765-792. ALHMUN in two lines divided by a line of pellets with fleury ends; a Latin cross above and D below. Minted by Ealhmund in London. Length: 14.91mm, Width: 15.11mm, Thickness: 0.84mm, Weight: 0.7g The coin is missing approximately 50% of its original form due to irregular, worn breaks between 12-6 O’clock, with minor portions of the outer flan missing on the remainder of the coin. North, Vol I, P 85, No 282. As EMC No: 1002.0317
Created on: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-12CCF2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An complete and possibly defaced early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Substantive Light Coinage, 'Profile/Cross of lobes' type (North 296; Chick 24) dating to c.AD784/5-92/3, moneyer: Dud(da), mint: London. Refs: North 1994: p.87; Chick 2010: pl. 4; Naismith 2017: p.134, table 9.  The coin is slightly bent and the obverse field shows numerous straight scratches across the portrait focusing on the area of the face. These appear to be deliberate suggesting that the coin has been defaced. Obverse OFFA REX. Bust Cc  draped with diadem, one &…
Created on: Friday 12th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-555A5D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-796), 'substantive light coinage' dating c. 784/5-92/3, moneyer: Ibba, mint: London, floriate cross with lozenge centre reverse containing cross and pellets, with moneyer's name in angles (North 301, Chick 54-6). Ref: North 1994: 87-8; Chick 2010: plate 8-9, nos 54a-56d (the location of the bust relative to the reverse cross and inscription may suggest the coin belongs to Chick 54 but this remains uncertain); Naismith 2017: p.134, table 9; cf. Naismith 2016: plate 4, no: 81.  Measuremen…
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-9D824A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver Penny of Offa, King of Mercia (AD 757-796). Light coinage. Flower of four petals on saltire botonnée within inner circle and lobes dividing legend reverse. Minted by Dud, South -eastern Mint. AD 765-792. Diameter: 16.99mm, Thickness: 0.80mm, Weight: 1.2g North Vol I, P 88, No 310
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-616B5C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval silver penny of Offa (757 - 796), dating to c.AD 792 - 796. Heavy Coinage. Moneyer Ealhmund, mint of London. North (1994) Volume 1, p 90 no 328 CEB 89 Dr Martin Allen comments: This coin belongs to type 205 in Derek Chick's book The Coinage of Offa and his Contemporaries. Chick lists five coins in this type, to which can be added three more coins in EMC, including your find. Recorded as EMC 2023.0329
Created on: Monday 4th September 2023
Last updated: Sunday 19th November 2023
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Record ID: BH-22C6F9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96); heavy coinage (c.792-6), moneyer: Ciolhard/Ceolheard (North 321; Chick 203); mint: London. Refs: Chick 2010: pl. 23; North 1994: 89. The coin is badly chipped, the breaks mostly following the line of the lunettes enclosing the moneyer's name on the reverse. North, J.J. 1994. English Hammered Coinage, Volume I, Early Anglo Saxon to Henry III, c. 600-1272. Spink & Son, London.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-D636B3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete struck silver penny of Offa of Mercia (r. AD 757-796), of the heavy coinage dating c. 792-796). Mint of London, moneyer Ethelnoth/Æthelnoth. North No. 324, Chick No. 231. Reverse die struck slightly off centre of flan. Diameter: 18.7mm Weight: 1.3g
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2023
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Record ID: WILT-7FF13B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Light Coinage, dating c.784-92, moneyer: Winoth, mint: London (Chick 75; North 288). Ref: Chick 2010: pl. 10, no 75a-b, p.168.  
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: ESS-BA68FD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), 'Light Coinage' dating to c.AD780/5-92, moneyer: Ecghun (EXCHVN), mint: East Anglia (Chick 170; North 334). Ref: Chick 2010: plate 22 no 170a; Naismith 2017: plate 35, no. 1029; North 1994: 91.
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Braintree', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-98062D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver early medieval penny of Offa of Mercia (757-796). Light Coinage (non portrait) Group I with cross on saltire obverse dating to c. AD 784-787. Moneyer is Osmod, Canterbury mint. As North 264.
Created on: Saturday 9th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 15th July 2022
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Record ID: WILT-01F837
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Light Coinage (dating to c.AD780-92/3), non-portrait type, mint: London, moneyer: Ealhmund (North 282; Chick 39var). Refs: North 1994: 85; Chick 2010: plate 7, cf. nos 39a-h; Naismith 2017: 133-5. The coin is incomplete with extensive chipping of the outer edge of the coin and there is evidence of pitting on the surface. The coin appears to be a variation on Chick 39 with the first line of the reverse inscription beginning with a cross instead of this being place above and between the l…
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 16th August 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-D677C1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (AD 757-796), 'floriate cross with lozenge centre reverse' type (North 302var; cf. especially Chick 68), later substantive Light Coinage (phase IIc) dating to c.AD 784/5-792/3, moneyer: Babba, mint: Canterbury (see discussion below). Refs: North 1994: 88; Chick 2010; Naismith 2017: table 9. The coin is complete although encrusted with dirt. Note that in the spelling on the moneyer's name on the reverse, the first A is located at a cross end rather than in a beaded circle as seen for the other letters.
Created on: Monday 18th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-AAA664
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver early medieval penny of Offa of Mercia, light coinage non portrait issue dating to c. AD787-792. Obverse has king's name across the field in two lines divided by a beaded line with forked ends. the reverse has the moneyer's name EĐEL/WALD in two lines as on obverse. As North 287; CEB 25, 54-6.
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
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Record ID: NARC-E07F0B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver Penny of King Offa (AD 757-796). Heavy coinage. Reverse reads +BEAx/HEARD within an upper and lower lunette, divided by a line of pellets. Moneyer Beagheard. South Eastern Mint. AD 792-796. Diameter: 18.64mm, Thickness: 0.63mm, Weight: 1.0g The coin is missing small portions of its outer flan. North Vol I, P 89, No 321
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2022
Last updated: Friday 18th March 2022
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Record ID: BUC-430FBF
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver, Early Medieval coin of Offa (AD.757-796), heavy coinage (AD.792-796), South Eastern, probably London Mint, North 1994 no.326, moneyer Winoth Obverse: M / + OFFA / REX, three pellets either side of M, OFFA between pelleted lines, pellet in each angle of +, three pellets to left of REX Reverse: 'dumbell' with internal pellet line, moneyer either side VVD//INO [Winoth]
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 4th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wicken', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-A6A573
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757 - 796) dating to c. 784 - c. 792. Cross crosslet obverse type, moneyer: Babba, mint: Canterbury (North 266; Chick 89). References: North 1994: 83; Chick 2010: pl. 12. Diameter: 17.50 mm Weight: 1.03 g Die axis: 3 This is similar to two examples recorded in the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds: EMC/SCBI Number 1992.76321 and EMC/SCBI Number 2018.0396
Created on: Thursday 28th October 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th April 2022
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Record ID: SUR-7F7364
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver early Medieval penny of Offa of Mercia, light coinage, non portrait issue with cross crosslet obverse, dating to AD 765-792. Moneyer Babba, Canterbury mint. As Chick type 91 (same reverse die as Chick 91a, 91b); North 267.
Created on: Tuesday 26th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 26th October 2021
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Record ID: IOW-7C5124
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Light Coinage (c.784/5-92), moneyer: Heabeorht (Chick 124; North 276.1), mint: Canterbury mint. Ref: Chick 2010: pl. 17, no 124a; Naismith 2017: 133-6. The coin is in fair condition, worn and chipped. Obverse: Central cross surrounded by inscription +O/FF/A R/EX Reverse: Central saltire of lobes surrounded by inscription +HE(ligated).AB.EH.RT (with rosette stops)
Created on: Tuesday 26th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 16th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-684647
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver early medieval penny of Offa of Mercia (AD 757-96), dating to the period c.AD 792-c.796. Group III. Heavy coinage, East Anglian, uncertain mint. Issued by Wihtræd.  North, vol.I, no.338 c.f. EMC number:1002.0327
Created on: Monday 25th October 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Helmingham', grid reference and parish protected.