Anglo-Saxon England, Transitional Coinage (c. 675-760), Pale Gold or Electrum Shilling, Pada type Ia, unintelligible vestigial legend, small helmeted and draped Romanised bust right, rev. MAL above PADA in elongated runes inside beaded standard, tufa below, 1.34g, 270° (cf. Rigold [BNJ, 1960], Pa1A, no. 2 [Finglesham Cemetery Find]; SL 1-10 plate coin; SCBI 69, 15 this coin; T&S 73-9, 81-3; Gannon, pp. 44, 47, 52-53, 57, 172, 184, no. 18 and Figs. 2.35, 2.42b and 5.18; North 151; Spink 768), some minor marks to portrait, otherwise a bold very fine, extremely rare.
provenance
J Philpotts, July 2010
~ Found near Sherburn (North Yorkshire), 2010 ~
[EMC 2010.0248 = BNJ Coin Register 2011, no. 77]
Estimate: £5000 - £4000