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Auction 21060  30 Sep 2021
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Lot 578

Starting price: 1200 GBP
Price realized: 3200 GBP
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Anglo-Saxon England, Post-Crondall Types (c. 655-675), Pale Gold Shilling, 'Oath-taking' type, in the Constantinian style, braided, diademed and armoured bust right, with long nose and slender arm, unusually curved wreath-ties behind, cross in open hand before, rev. Lyre-shaped shield in double pellet border, two crosses below, three large and five small pellets in tufa above, chevrons for vestigial legend, 1.16g, 0° (SCBI 69, 10 this coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 18; Gannon 62, 65, 73, 74, 165, 184, no. 17, and Figs 2.59, 2.71, and 2.72; cf. Marsden, 'Caesaromagus', No. 120, Summer 2016, pp. 50-59; North 17; Spink 766), scratches across arm and before face, otherwise of very pale gold with traces of waterwear, otherwise neatly centred, near very fine / a bolder fine, rare.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder,
~ Found by J Scopes "near Thrandeston", November 2009 ~,
[EMC 2010.0008 = BNJ Coin Register 2010, no. 54]

Estimate: £1200 - £1500
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