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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 21

Anglo-Saxon England, Kent, Anonymous Early Christian Issues, temp. Eorcenberht (c. 620-655), Gold Shilling, 'Wuneetton' type, large crude bust right, with mane of hair and crescent-shaped ear, trident on stand before, linear collar with four pellets, rev. WVNO_TEEN, central cross potent in double beaded circle, 1.27g, 0°[?] (SCBI 69, 4 this coin; Abramson, 2012a, Fig 4; T&S pp. 59, 77; A&W xiv; Gannon: pp. 47, 73, Fig. 2.34; Spink 761), strucky with a rusty obverse die, otherwise handsomely centred, very fine, the reverse pleasingly so, rare and rather imposing

provenance
J Philpotts, May 2010
~ Found near Sleaford (Lincolnshire) ~
[EMC 2010.0074]

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£4,500

Starting price
£3800