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English: Bust of Queen Cynethryth, wife of Offa of Mercia. Cynethryth is the only Anglo-Saxon queen in whose name coins were issued. Legend reads "EOBA", the name of the moneyer who produced this coin.
Date (publication date of Grueber's book) or earlier
Source Grueber, Herbert Appold (1846-1927), Handbook of the coins of Great Britain and Ireland in the British Museum. London/Oxford: British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals & the Clarendon Press, 1899. Plate I, image number 28. Available online at the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/handbookofcoinso00brituoft
Author There is no person credited for images contained in the work. The introduction thanks the Clarendon Press for the production of these en:collotypes.

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