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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 16

Anglo-Saxon England, Crondall Types (620-645), Gold Shilling, 'Substantive Gold' Phase, 'Crondall Cross' type, cross ancrée on step with annulets in lower quarters, rev. cross moline, annulets between limbs, 1.30g (ASGC 15-16, Crondall 39-43; T&S 18-22, pp. 30; CMM 13184; Spink 759), some striking flatness and evidently struck with rusty dies, otherwise about very fine, very rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, June 2019
~ Found by Ray Garside, Thrapston (Northamptonshire), 23 February 2015 ~
[UKDFD 47568]


Five specimens of this anepigraphic type were found in the Crondall hoard (Hants, 1828). Only two have been added to the corpus since, both in the last decade as isolated finds at Birch, Essex (EMC 2011.0044 = PAS ESS-3263B5), and the present coin.

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Sold for
£4,500

Starting price
£2700