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Penny - Cuthred Portrait type
| Issuer | Kent, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 798-807 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | + CVÐRED REX CANT (Translation: Cuthred, king of Kent.) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cuthred ruled Kent as a client king under Mercian overlordship — Offa of Mercia had effectively absorbed the Kentish kingdom in the 780s, and Cuthred's coinage reflects that subordinate status in its minting arrangements even where it asserts local identity. The portrait type is the more ambitious of his two main series, likely produced at Canterbury.
Kent's independent monetary tradition was already eroding by this point; within a generation, Mercian and then West Saxon authority would extinguish it entirely.