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Auction 21000 18 Mar 2021
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Anglo-Saxon England, Crondall Types (620-645), Gold Shilling, 'Substantive Gold' Phase, 'Crondall Cross' type, cross ancrée on step with annulets in lower quarters, rev. cross moline, annulets between limbs, 1.30g (ASGC 15-16, Crondall 39-43; T&S 18-22, pp. 30; CMM 13184; Spink 759), some striking flatness and evidently struck with rusty dies, otherwise about very fine, very rare.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, June 2019
~ Found by Ray Garside, Thrapston (Northamptonshire), 23 February 2015 ~
[UKDFD 47568]
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Five specimens of this anepigraphic type were found in the Crondall hoard (Hants, 1828). Only two have been added to the corpus since, both in the last decade as isolated finds at Birch, Essex (EMC 2011.0044 = PAS ESS-3263B5), and the present coin.
Estimate: £4000 - £3000
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, June 2019
~ Found by Ray Garside, Thrapston (Northamptonshire), 23 February 2015 ~
[UKDFD 47568]
,
Five specimens of this anepigraphic type were found in the Crondall hoard (Hants, 1828). Only two have been added to the corpus since, both in the last decade as isolated finds at Birch, Essex (EMC 2011.0044 = PAS ESS-3263B5), and the present coin.
Estimate: £4000 - £3000