Portrait Penny of an Anonymus King of Kent (c.822-823)

Obv: +SVVEF[ ]ERD MONETA (Swefheard), diademed bust facing right within inner circle.

Rev: + / DORO / BERNIA / CIVITA / S in five lines.

Minted at Canterbury.

Weight : 1.4 grams

Spink Cat. # 878; North # 221.1

Recorded on the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds (EMC 2005.0187) at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. One of only four of this type recorded. 

An  EXTREMELY RARE , well struck coin of good silver with excellent portrait - Chipped as seen .

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