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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 365

Anglo-Saxon, Northumbria, Ultra-Crondall types, c.620-c.65, Thrymsa, 1.28g, 'York' type, c.640-60, facing figure flanked by crosses, the drapery consisting of intersecting lines rev. [...]hnoap: around inner circle, a cross within, (Metcalf p.49-51; SCBI 63 BM, No 16 - diff. rev. die; Sutherland No 75, Pl. IV, 18-20 - diff. rev. die; N.27; S.762), a field find with some light grazing under magnification on obverse, a little mud in recesses, reverse off-struck but the piece generally well presented and with good centring on obverse, good very fine and extremely rare

provenance:
Found near Shipton, North Yorkshire, 2014
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2015.0151

In addition to the York group thrymsa sold in the March 2015 sale (lot 505) there are now eighteen traceable examples of the type of which eleven are sub-type C

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