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Penny - Wiglaf 1st reign
| Issuer | Mercia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 827-829 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (827-829) |
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Wiglaf was expelled from Mercia by Egbert of Wessex in 829 — an annexation that Egbert celebrated by styling himself Bretwalda — but Wiglaf recovered the kingdom within two years under circumstances the chronicles leave frustratingly unclear. Coins attributable to this first reign are accordingly scarce, compressed into a window of perhaps two years before the interruption. North 400 is among the rarer Mercian types precisely because production was cut short rather than tapered.