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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 19

Anglo-Saxon England, Bishop of York, Paulinus (625-633 / † 10 October 644), Gold Shilling (58% AV), 'Ultra Crondall', York Group, Inscriptional type, face over segmented wall, bifurcated cross forms features, teardrops, cross pattée either side, rev. PVOHENVT ED: [PAVLINVS EP(ISCOPVS)], letters retrograde and inverted, central cross pattée in beaded circle, 1.29g, 320° (SCBI 69, 5 this coin; BNJ 2019, pp. 1-18; T&S pp. 50-51, 76; A&W type V, xxi; Gannon, pp. 27-28, 62, 88, 172 nos. 111, 185 and no. 30, Fig. 2.4; cf. North 27; Spink 763), the reverse off-struck, nevertheless a handsomely bold striking, extremely fine and of national significance, the discovery coin naming this totemic historical and religious figurehead and latterly first Bishop of York

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, March 2007
~ Found by R Last at Pocklington (East Yorkshire), March 2007 ~
[EMC 2007.0088 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no. 80]

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Sold for
£25,000

Starting price
£4000