Penny - Wiglaf 1st reign

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.