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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 314

Northumbria, Æthelwald Moll with Ecgberht (759-765), Sceat, +EDILdPlD around central saltire, rev. ECGBERhT AR around central cross pattée, 0.89g, 345° (SL 76-10 plate coin; Abramson 2018b; SCBI 69, 1036 this coin; T&S pp. 589; Stewart, NumChron 91, 223-5; Spink 853), waterworn and ragged, otherwise of sound fabric, the central devices clear, almost very fine, a prized Northumbrian rarity

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, November 2011
~ Reportedly found by G Thomlinson at Driffield (Yorkshire), 2008 ~
[EMC 2012.0036 = BNJ Coin Register 2012, no. 81]

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Sold for
£4,500

Starting price
£2000