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Auction 21000  18 Mar 2021
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Lot 26

Estimate: 1700 GBP
Price realized: 1800 GBP
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Anglo-Saxon England, Transitional Coinage (c. 675-760), Pale Gold or Electrum Shilling, Pada type Ib, helmeted and draped bust of Constantine right, legend around, rev. TOTXX in beaded standard, tufa above, beaded cross below on pellet-in-annulet, runic legends surround, PADA right, TIAM(M) left, 1.31g, 0° (PaIB, SL 1-20 plate coin; SCBI 69, 18 this coin; Abramson, 2012a, Figs. 14 & 20, and 2012b, Fig 17a; T&S pp. 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 32; Spink 768A), some striking softness before portrait and a hint of surface porosity, otherwise a really good very fine, scarce.
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Purchased Spink (via T Owen, May 2007)
Estimate: £2200 - £1800
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