Art Funded
Penny of Offa, King of Mercia
© Wiltshire Heritage Museum
Anglo-Saxon
Wiltshire Heritage Museum
792-796
The coin has a design and writing on one side and the inscription 'Offa' with a design above and below on the other. This coin was struck by the moneyer Deimund, one of the rarer moneyers of that King, probably striking at Canterbury.
- Medium: silver
- Dimensions: diameter 1.8cm
- Art Fund Grant: £438 ( Total: £1,750)
- ArtFunded in: 2001
- Vendor: M Vowles
Provenance
Found by the vendor in Westbury in 2000.
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