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Auction: 21050 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coins - Part II : Northumbria
Lot: 337

Anglo-Saxon England, Bishop of York, Paulinus (625-633 / † 10 October 644), Gold Shilling, York Group, Inscriptional type 1, face over segmented wall, bifurcated cross forms features, cross pattée either side, stone wall before rev. PVONEN[VT E]D: [PAVLINVS EP(ISCOPVS)], letters retrograde and inverted, central cross pattée in beaded circle, 1.26g (SCBI 69, 5; BNJ 2019, pp. 1-18; T&S pp. 50-51, 76; A&W type V, xxi; Gannon, pp. 27-28, 62, 88, 172 nos. 111, 185 and no. 30, Fig. 2.4; cf. North 27; Spink 763), an oversized reverse die a trace off-centre, otherwise light tone, a really good very fine, highly desirable and of equal rarity and historical importance as lot 19

provenance
Acquired privately from finders soon after
~ Found by I Grieg and E Pemberton in Fulford Parish (Yorkshire), 1 December 2015 ~
[Dies Ciii1/Ciii1; EMC 2016.0024; BNJ 2019, no. 23]


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