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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 317

Northumbria, Æthelred I, Second Reign (789-796), Sceat, 'Shrine' type, Cuthgils, ED·+TRED, central cross pattée, initial cross pattée, rev. CVD | CLS around shrine, 1.07g, 0° (SL 85-10; Abramson 2018b; SCBI 69, 891 this coin; T&S pp. 594-600; North 184; Spink 857 plate coin), surface deposits, otherwise about very fine, very rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, November 2007
~ Found by R Spour near Wetwang (Yorkshire), October 2007 ~


This exceptional type was once thought to depict the Shrine of St. Cuthbert, based on a misinterpretation of the reverse legend as SCT CVÐ. Current scholarship agrees that the type belongs contemporaneously to the series of small bronze stycas bearing the names of moneyers, and that the legend is more properly interpreted as the CVD CLS, for the moneyer Cuthgils.

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Sold for
£1,100

Starting price
£650