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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 315

Northumbria, Æthelwald Moll with Æthelred (759-765), Sceat, E^D+ET^VTD R around central boss, rev. R AEDILRED+, first R retrograde, around central cross in inner circle, 0.91g, 0° (SL 77-10 plate coin; Abramson, 2008, Fig. 51; 2012b, Fig 8b, 2018b; SCBI 69, 861 this coin; Williams, BNJ 71, 2001, pp. 158-160; Pirie, Numismatic Circular CXI, June 2003, pp. 129-130; North 185/9; Spink 848 plate coin), a hairline split and surface porosity, otherwise a remarkable Northumbrian issue of the highest rarity, a bold fine to very fine and unpriced in our Standard Catalogue

provenance
A Gillis, December 2006
~ Found at Kilham, near Bridlington (Yorkshire), Winter 2005-06 ~
[EMC 2008.0085 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no. 195]

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Sold for
£17,000

Starting price
£2200