Watch List notes:

ANGLO-SAXON, Transitional/Pre-Primary Phase. Circa 665/70-670/5. Pale AV Thrymsa (13mm, 1.22 g, 4h). 'Pada' series (Rigold PaIA). Mint in Kent. Helmeted bust right; annulets flanking helmet, CTΛ IZIIC (C's retrograde) clockwise around from lower left / Standard inscribed PADA (in Runic); above, cross with annulet terminals flanked by uncertain letters; chevron-barred As to left and right; tufa below. Abramson 1.10; MEC 8 table 3, 31; North 151; SCBC 768. Toned. Good VF. Great portrait. Very rare early Pada issue.


From the James & Martha Robertson Collection. Ex CNG inventory 943607 (February 2013).

With the handsome bust derived from a Constaninian prototype and the distinctive runic inscription in the center of the standard on the reverse, this type 1a Thrymsa is stylistically the finest of the enigmatic PADA issues.