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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 20

Anglo-Saxon England, Kent, Anonymous Early Christian Issues, temp. Eorcenberht (c. 620-655), Gold Shilling, Crondall Types, 'Witmen' Series, large diademed and cuirassed bust right, with three-wreath ties, crescent-shaped ear, trident on stand before, linear collar with four pellets, rev. [WITMEN] MOT^U (MONITA), bifurcated short cross in beaded circle, 1.27g, 270°[?] (SCBI 69, 3 this coin; Sutherland IV.ii; T&S 1-21, pp. 57-59; A&W xiii; Gannon, pp. 47 and 55, nos. 213 and 214, and pp. 72-3, 159, 167, Figs. 2.33, 2.70, 5.3a, and 5.5f; North 26; Spink 753), somewhat waterworn, otherwise very fine

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, November 2009
~ Found by J Trundley 'near Warfield Church' (Berkshire) ~
[EMC 2010.0007 = BNJ Coin Register 2010, no. 58]

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Sold for
£2,600

Starting price
£1400