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Auction: 14004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1337

Anglo-Saxon, early period, gold Thrymsa, 1.36g, Crondall types, c.620-c.645, diademed head left, rev. inscription, orbis cruciger above three steps (Sutherland, 11, pl. I, 14 - same dies; Metcalf, Thrymsas and Sceattas vol 1, pl. 3, 67; North -; S.759), good very fine, one of the earliest issues of the Anglo-Saxon coinage, the only example outside a museum, extremely rare

provenance
Found near Malton, North Yorks, 2013
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0389

Specific gravity test reading 16.468, c.79% gold.

Sutherland notes that the obverse of this type has an independence of treatment which connects it firmly with Anglo-Saxon worksmanship. Prior to the discovery of this coin, this type was known for a single example from the 1834 Crondall hoard (Crondall 35) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

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Sold for
£21,000