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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 27

Anglo-Saxon England, Transitional Coinage (c. 675-760), Pale Gold or Electrum Shilling, Pada type IIa, diademed classical bust right, wearing jewelled robe with wavy hair, wreath ties and annulet behind, ITNC, the C retrograde, before, rev. Runic PADA, inverted As, within beaded tablet, beaded border with vestigial legend in margin, 1.00g. 0° (PaIIA, type 95, SL 1-30, plate coin; SCBI 69, 20 this coin; SCBI 20 [Mack], 310; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 1b; T&S pp. 73-9, 81-3; Gannon, 44, 47, 52-53, 57, 172, 184, no. 18 and Figs. 2.35, 2.42b, and 5.18; North 154; Spink 769), some minor marks on cheek, otherwise toned and well-centred albeit on a short flan, a really good very fine, rare

provenance
T Webb-Ware, January 1999
Spink Numismatic Circular, May 1987

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Sold for
£1,900

Starting price
£1200