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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 31

Anglo-Saxon England, Transitional Coinage, Shilling, Valdobertus/Vernus type, Series A, Early or Experimental [?], type 69, +V^^IP[OI]BE^[S (?)], the P reversed [VALDOBERTVS], neatly seriffed letters, radiate and pelleted bust right, rev. Beaded standard, tufa above, seriffed crosses to sides (?) and below, 1.20g, 35° (SL 3-50 plate coin; Abramson 2012a, Fig 15; and 2012b, Fig 1b; SCBI 69, 39 this coin; cf. Blackburn, The 'Offa' Sceat', 2010, no. 32; Prou [1892], 69; T&S pp. 144, 148; Hill [1953], type 69, plate VII, no. 17; JMP 3466-68), toned, good very fine

provenance
J Philpotts, July 2010
~ Found at Alne (North Yorkshire), 2010 ~
[EMC 2011.0032 = BNJ Coin Register 2011, no. 79]


From the same obverse die as Spink Numismatic Circular 1970, pp. 407, no. 11172, where the inscription is delineated as VVAIPOIRF. It has been
suggested that this variety provides a link between the two groups of the Vernus type.

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Sold for
£3,200

Starting price
£1500