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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 585

Anglo-Saxon England, Transitional Coinage (c. 675-760), Pale Gold or Electrum Shilling, Pada type IIA, 'Type 95', SL 1-30, diademed Romanized bust right, wreath ties behind, wearing jewelled robe, legend TIIC before, rev. Runic PADA, within beaded tablet, tufa left, beaded border with vestigial legend in margin, 1.25g, 270° (SCBI 69, 19 this coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 1b; T&S pp. 73-9, 81-3; Gannon, 44, 47, 52-53, 57, 172, 184, no. 18 and Figs. 2.35, 2.42b, and 5.18; North 154; Spink 769), scratch across portrait and lightly porous, otherwise nearly very fine and rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, November 2009

~ Found by J Scopes, near Diss (Norfolk) ~
[EMC 2010.0010 = BNJ Coin Register 2010, no. 61]

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Sold for
£1,400

Starting price
£1150