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Penny - Baldred
| Issuer | Kingdom of Kent |
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| Year | 823-825 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a plain cross pattée within a beaded inner circle, dividing the field into four equal quadrants. The royal legend is arranged in two arcs around the inner circle, reading + BELDRED REX CΛNT, identifying the issuer as Baldred, King of Kent. The lettering is executed in a bold, angular Saxon majuscule characteristic of early ninth-century Kentish coinage. The flan is irregular and slightly dumpy, typical of the hammered penny coinage of this period. The overall design follows the Two-Line or cross-and-legend type associated with the southern English kingdoms of the Mercian supremacy era. |
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| Obverse lettering | + BELDRED REX CΛNT (Translation: Baldred, King of Kent.) |
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| Reverse lettering | + SIGESTEF |
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