Penny - Æthelheard 5th issue

Æthelheard's archiepiscopate was defined less by ecclesiastical calm than by political crisis: he fled Canterbury in 796 when Mercian-backed unrest made his position untenable, and Pope Leo III had to intervene before he was restored. His coinage continued through this turbulence, struck under Mercian overlordship at a time when Offa's death had thrown the southern English kingdoms into realignment. This fifth issue belongs to the post-restoration period, when Æthelheard was consolidating ties with the new Mercian king Coenwulf.

North 232 is among the scarcer attributions in the Canterbury archiepiscopal sequence.