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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 584

Anglo-Saxon England, Transitional Coinage (c. 675-760), Pale Gold or Electrum Shilling, Pada type IB, helmeted and draped bust of Constantine right, vestigial legends around, rev. TOTXX in beaded standard, tufa above, beaded cross below on pellet-in-annulet, Runic legend around, [(M) PADA to right,] TIAM(M) left, 1.14g, 0° (SL 1-20, SCBI 69, 17 this coin; Abramson, 2012a, Figs. 14 & 20, and 2012b, Fig 17a; T&S pp. 73-9, 81-3; Gannon pp. 44, 47, 52-53, 57, 172, 184, no. 18 and Figs. 2.35, 2.42b, and 5.18; North 32; Spink 768A), corrosion across portrait and of baser silver-gold fabric, otherwise good / nearly very fine and rare

provenance
J Philpotts, March 2014

~ Found by S Spourle "on a settlement site, next to a graveyard of the same period", near Lyminge (Kent), 6 January 2014 ~


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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£600