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Auction 21000  18 Mar 2021
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Lot 28

Estimate: 1100 GBP
Price realized: 2600 GBP
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Anglo-Saxon England, Transitional Coinage (c. 675-760), Pale Gold or Electrum Shilling, Pada type IIIa, double diademed and braided hair classical bust right, wearing plain robe, fringe over forehead, wreath ties and annulet behind, jewel before and legend O^NC before, rev. Runic PADA then ^NVSP^NV, central cross over annulet cross in beaded circle, 1.25g, 0° (PaIII[1], type 97; SL 1-50 plate coin; SCBI 69, 21 this coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 1b; T&S pp. 73-9, 81-3; Gannon, 44, 47, 52-53, 57, 172, 184, no. 18 and Figs. 2.35; 2.42b and 5.18; North 31 [153]; Spink 770 [773]) a scuff on cheek, otherwise handsomely centred, a strikingly little coin in the classical style, a really good very fine.
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Acquired privately from finder
~ Found by J Scopes, near Diss (Norfolk), 17 October 2008 ~
[EMC 2009.0022]
Estimate: £1500 - £1200
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