| The previous, small, dumpy, and rather informal silver coins were replaced by broader, thinner and heavier silver pennies which carried the name of the king and the moneyer. |
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| The new pennies almost invariably carried both Offa's name and the name of the moneyer from whose mint the coins came. |
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| It is clear that the moneyer had no understanding of Arabic as the Arabic text contains many errors. |
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| These were small silver pennies, which often did not bear the name of either the moneyer or the king for whom they were produced. |
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| Crucially, these silver pennies bore the king's name on the obverse and that the moneyer on the reverse. |
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| This one is known as a long cross cut halfpenny, struck in London by the moneyer Davi or David. |
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| Although many of the coins bear the name of a moneyer, there is no indication of the mint where each coin was struck. |
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