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1. BALDRED [c.823-25] silver penny
CANTERBURY mint - Moneyer - TIDBERHT
obv. +BALDRED REX CAN T rev. +TIDBERHT MONET
1.11g
ref. Naismith C65.1a [same obv. die], North 220, Spink 879
Ex - Spink, 2008 [with ticket]
Baldred portrait pennies from Canterbury are exceptionally rare and almost all are chipped as is this dark tone EXTREMELY RARE - only one other known.

Baldred was king of Kent, from 823 until 826 or 827. Ceolwulf I, king of Mercia, had ruled Kent directly, but in 823 he was deposed by Beornwulf, and at about the same time moneyers at Canterbury started issuing coins in the name of Baldred, king of Kent. It is uncertain whether he was independent or a Mercian under-king. In 826 or 827 he was expelled by Æthelwulf, son of King Egbert of Wessex, and Kent was ruled directly by Wessex thereafter.

Nineteen of his coins are known.