BALDRED, 805-823.
Obverse, bust or cross within inner circle, BALDRED, BELDRED, or BEALDRED REX CN or CANT. Reverse, moneyer’s name, cross, etc. One of his coins has on the reverse DIORMOD MONETA, and within the inner circle, in two lines, DRVR CITS for Dorovernia Civitas or city of Canterbury, and is the earliest known instance of place of mintage appearing upon Saxon coins.
MERCIAN KINGS. OFFA, 757-796.
The coins of Offa are of great variety in type, of considerable beauty in design, and of better workmanship than most of the Saxon pennies. On the obverse is the name OFFA REX, or REX M, or REX MERCIORN. Reverse, various crosses and other devices and moneyer’s name. Of these upwards of fifty are known, and some of them used Runic letters.