Kings of Kent Cuthred Silver Penny 798-807AD Canterbury
£3,950.00
Kings of Kent, Cuthred Silver Penny, 798-807AD, moneyer Duda, Canterbury.
18mm, 1.27g, S877
A pleasing mid Saxon portrait coin.
Provenance – The Kent Collection. This coin comes with a hand written collector’s ticket.
Cuthred (798-807) – brother of the Mercian King Coenwulf who defeated Eadberht Praen and re-annexed Kent, Cuthred effectively acted as the de-facto vassal ruler of Kent until his own death in 807, whereupon Coenwulf took direct control again. During his rule, Kent experienced its first taste of Scandinavian raids.
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