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Auction: 21050 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coins - Part II : Northumbria
Lot: 336

Anglo-Saxon England, Bishops of York (c. 620-655), Gold Shilling, York Group, Inscriptional type 3, variety Cii, standing figure with cruciform features and short cross floating either side; cross pattée on left and a fleur-de-lis right, 'minster wall' segments arched, rev. SANCTE VIA DCS EF(V), central cross pattée in beaded circle, 1.28g, 135° (SCBI 69, 6-7; A&W, type V. xxi; North 27; Spink 762), attractively centred with only a faint trace of peripheral striking softness, almost extremely fine, very rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, March 2016
~ Found by C Howard near Thirsk (North Yorkshire), 20 February 2016 ~
[Dies Ci2/Ci1; EMC 2016.0079; BNJ 2019, no. 15]


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