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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 598

Anglo-Saxon England, Transitional Coinage, Shilling, Valdobertus/Vernus type, Series A, Early or Experimental [?], type 69, +V^^IPOIBE^S (?), the P reversed [VALDOBERTVS], radiate bust right, shaped crown with pellets representing material, rev. beaded standard, tufa above, crosses to sides [?] and below, all neatly seriffed, 1.25g, 270° (SL 3-50; cf. Blackburn, The 'Offa' Sceat', 2010, 32; Prou, 1892, 69; T&S, pp. 144, 148; Hill [1953], type 69, Pl. VII, no. 17; JMP 3466-68), oversize dies on a small flan, otherwise lightly porous, a really bold fine, extremely rare

provenance
L Chaplin, January 2018

Reportedly found at Kent

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Sold for
£260

Starting price
£150