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Mercia was an important monarchy in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th. From the mid-7th century until it ceased to exist as a kingdom, Mercia was one of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms during the early Middle Ages, the others being Northumbria, Wessex, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, and Sussex; Mercia being the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. It became a dominant force under Penda from about AD 632 until his death in AD 655. Bretwalda, his son, was the first Mercian overlord of the southern English. Offa (757–796), was the first of the Anglo-Saxon kings who might rightly be called "king of the English", and Mercia was never again as powerful as it was during Offa's reign.
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Kings of Mercia (796-877)
| W.A. MacKay, |
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The Coinage of Burgred of Mercia 852–874, 85 (2015), 101-237, 8 pls. |
| G. Williams, |
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‘Burgred “Lunette” type E reconsidered’, 78 (2008), 222-27 |
| M. A. S. Blackburn, |
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‘A penny of Coenwulf and a small hoard of Cnut from Bottisham, Cambridgeshire’, 53 (1983), 176-77 |
| W. A. Seaby, |
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‘A Coenwulf penny by Wihtred from Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire’, 52 (1982), 29-33 |
| H. E. Pagan, |
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‘An unpublished fragment of a coin of Ceolwulf II’, 41 (1972), 14-20 |
| C. E. Blunt and M. Dolley, |
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On an alleged Penny of Ludica, King of Mercia 825-7, 36 (1967), 29-31 |
| H. E. Pagan, |
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Coinage in the age of Burgred, 34 (1965), 11-27, pl. |
| R. H. M. Dolley, |
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An unpublished hoard-provenance for a penny of Ceolwulf II of Mercia, 32 (1963), 88-90, pl. |
| C. E. Blunt, |
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‘“A new type” for Burgred’, 31 (1962), 159 |
| C. E. Blunt, |
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Some new Mercian coins ,29 (1958-59), 9-11, pl. |
| N. Heywood, |
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The kingdom and coins of Burgred, 3 (1906), 59-66, pl. |
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