Classical Numismatic Group, LLC
Auction 114 13-14 May 2020
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ANGLO-SAXON, Transitional/Pre-Primary Phase. Circa 665/70-670/5. Pale AV Thrymsa (12.5mm, 0.98 g, 12h). 'Pada' series (Rigold PaIIB, Type 96). Mint in Kent. Diademed bust right; TIIC downward to right / + mNVNTOT[...]m, cross set on two steps within double beaded border. Abramson 1.40; EMC 8 table 3, 31; SCBI 63 (BM), 34 (same rev. die); North –; SCBC 769A. EMC 2018.004 (this coin). Toned, small metal flaw on obverse. Good VF. Extremely rare, this was the first of this type to appear at auction.
From the James & Martha Robertson Collection. Ex Triton XXII (8 January 2019), lot 1354. Found in Birchington, Kent, 2017.
Of the enigmatic Pada series of thrymsas first classified by Stuart Rigold in his seminal 1960 study, type P IIB is by far the rarest. The obverse shares with type P IIA a bust based on a Constantinian prototype with a distinctive wreath made from a 'special cloven punch'. On the reverse, however, the Runic inscription PADA has been replaced with a cross-on-steps, a common Byzantine motif first encountered in the Anglo-Saxon series on the fine gold Benitugo type Thrymsa. Only two other specimens are known of the P IIB type: one, found in a grave in Dover, was considered as possibly imitative by Michael Metcalf (T&S p. 76) on grounds of style and metal content; and the example in the BM, acquired privately in 1926, with which our coin is die linked.
From the James & Martha Robertson Collection. Ex Triton XXII (8 January 2019), lot 1354. Found in Birchington, Kent, 2017.
Of the enigmatic Pada series of thrymsas first classified by Stuart Rigold in his seminal 1960 study, type P IIB is by far the rarest. The obverse shares with type P IIA a bust based on a Constantinian prototype with a distinctive wreath made from a 'special cloven punch'. On the reverse, however, the Runic inscription PADA has been replaced with a cross-on-steps, a common Byzantine motif first encountered in the Anglo-Saxon series on the fine gold Benitugo type Thrymsa. Only two other specimens are known of the P IIB type: one, found in a grave in Dover, was considered as possibly imitative by Michael Metcalf (T&S p. 76) on grounds of style and metal content; and the example in the BM, acquired privately in 1926, with which our coin is die linked.