RARE SAXON SILVER PENNY, KING COENWULF, (Mercia 796-821)

RARE SAXON SILVER PENNY, KING COENWULF, (Mercia 796-821), Pincer Cross type, Canterbury Mint; Werheard moneyer, portrait profile to obverse with REX COENWULF around; the reverse with PERNEARD MONET, double pincer cross with pellet to centre and wedges in angles, 2cm diameter EMC RECORD NUMBER: 2020.0166. Literature: Rory Naismith's book the coinage of Southern England 796-865, which lists two other coins from the same dies (C45.1a and C45.1b) Jeffery J North's book English hammered coinage volume 1, group 111 (portrait issue on large flans 810-821ad.) pincer cross type (double pincer-shaped cross on pommee with wedges) *347 page 93