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Description: Bust of Queen Cynethryth, wife of Offa of Mercia. Cynethryth is the only Anglo-Saxon queen in whose name coins were issued. Legend reads "EOBA", the name of the moneyer who produced this coin.
Title: Cynethryth penny obverse
Credit: Grueber, Herbert Appold (1846-1927), Handbook of the coins of Great Britain and Ireland in the British Museum. London/Oxford: British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals & the Clarendon Press, 1899. Plate I, image number 28. Available online at the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/handbookofcoinso00brituoft
Author: There is no person credited for images contained in the work. The introduction thanks the Clarendon Press for the production of these en:collotypes.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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