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Penny - Baldred Canterbury mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Kent |
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| Year | 823-825 |
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| Value | 1 Penny (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse description | Diademed bust of King Baldred facing right, rendered in a simplified Anglo-Saxon style, contained within a plain inner circle. The bust displays a stylized crown or diadem and a schematic facial profile characteristic of ninth-century Kentish coinage. A circular legend in Latin runs around the periphery outside the inner circle, reading the king's name and title. The overall fabric is irregular, as is typical of hand-struck hammered coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a two-line inscription naming the moneyer, set within a plain inner circle, with an additional circular legend running around the outer periphery bearing the moneyer's title and the mint name. The lettering is executed in the angular, somewhat irregular style characteristic of early ninth-century Anglo-Saxon hammered pennies. The design is entirely epigraphic with no figurative imagery. The coin's surface shows typical die and flan irregularities consistent with the hammered technique of the period. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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