Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Transitional Coinage (c. 675-760), Pale Gold or Electrum Shilling, Pada type Ia, small helmeted and draped Romanised bust right, vestigial legend around, rev. PADA in runes in beaded standard, MAL above tufa below, character either side, 1.09g, 45° (SL 1-10; SCBI 69, 16 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; cf. Coddenham, Sotheby, 4-5 October 1990, lot 287; North 151; Spink 768), of a lukewarm-yellow fabric, minor superficial marks to portrait, otherwise a bolder very fine, extremely rare.
provenance
L Bennett, January 2011

Estimate: £3000 - £4000