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Auction: 14006 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 81

Anglo-Saxon, early period, pale gold Thrymsa, 1.26g, post-Crondall types, c.655-675, PADA type Ia, helmeted and cuirassed bust right in imitation of emperor Constantine I, gva-tsnc for constantinus aug?, rev. mal inverted beneath pada in runes on tablet, tufa flanked by v either side above (Abramson p.44, Coddenham style, i.e. this coin referred to; Metcalf vol.1, p.73-5 this coin referred to and line drawing illustration on p.75; Rigold PIa; SCBI 63 BM, No: 31i var; N.151; S.770), a detector find thus some surface scuffs as usual, good very fine and extremely rare, a well known coin referred to in the major reference works

provenance
Sotheby, 4th-5th October 1990, lot 287
Submitted to coreigner September 1988, released August 1989
From the 1988 Coddenham (Suffolk) find

For more information on this piece and the Coddenham find refer to J.C. Sadler TINS Notes vol. XI (1990), Special Publication no. 2a, The Suffolk 1988 find of Anglo-Saxon Gold Coinage. cf Sadler no.7.

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Sold for
£4,200