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Auction 140 15-16 Mar 2017
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BRITISH COINS FROM VARIOUS PROPERTIES
BRITISH COINS, Viking Coinages: Kingdom of York, Sihtric Caoch (921-7), Penny, perhaps Lincoln, hammer or t, sitdic dex, rev. sword, iioaprpyisiii, 1.38g/9h (EMC 2017.0001; Woods, NC 2016, p.278; Blackburn –; N 536; S 1013). Neatly struck on a full flan, about extremely fine and excessively rare £10,000-15,000
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Provenance: Found in Nottinghamshire, Boxing Day 2016.
This appears to be a new transitional type between the anonymous Sword and hammer type and the substantive type of Sihtric which normally has the royal title in two lines above and below the sword
BRITISH COINS, Viking Coinages: Kingdom of York, Sihtric Caoch (921-7), Penny, perhaps Lincoln, hammer or t, sitdic dex, rev. sword, iioaprpyisiii, 1.38g/9h (EMC 2017.0001; Woods, NC 2016, p.278; Blackburn –; N 536; S 1013). Neatly struck on a full flan, about extremely fine and excessively rare £10,000-15,000
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Provenance: Found in Nottinghamshire, Boxing Day 2016.
This appears to be a new transitional type between the anonymous Sword and hammer type and the substantive type of Sihtric which normally has the royal title in two lines above and below the sword