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.
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.