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Penny - Coenwulf Groups III, London
| Issuer | Kingdom of Mercia (Kingdoms of British Isles and Frisia) |
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| Year | 805-821 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | +CEOLhEARD m |
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Coenwulf came to power in 796 after the brief, violent reign of Ecgfrith — Offa's son, dead within five months — and spent much of his rule fighting to reassert Mercian dominance over Kent, East Anglia, and Northumbria. The London mint, operating under his authority, produced Group III pennies during a period when Mercian kings were also locked in a bitter dispute with Archbishop Wulfred of Canterbury over control of monastic lands and ecclesiastical appointments, a quarrel that dragged on unresolved until after Coenwulf's death in 821.
Coenwulf was the last king to use the title *Rex M* in full on coinage before Mercian power began its terminal decline under his successors.