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Auction: 22007 - British and World Coins and Commemorative Medals Autumn Auction
Lot: 445

Anglo-Saxon England, Bishop of York, Paulinus (625-633 / † 10 October 644), Gold Shilling, York Group, Inscriptional type 1, Variety Ciii, face over segmented wall, bifurcated cross forms features, cross pattée either side, stone wall before, rev. : PAONHEN[T ED] [PAVLINVS EP(ISCOPVS)], letters retrograde and inverted, central cross pattée in beaded circle, 1.26g, 7h [to start of legend] (Abramson, dies Ciii1/Ciii1, cf. Spink Sale, Part II, lot 337 same dies; SCBI 69, 5; BNJ 2019, pp. 1-18; cf. North 27; Spink 763), an oversized reverse die a trace off-centre, otherwise of excellent rich gold fabric, handsomely struck up, a really good very fine, excessively rare, only the sixth to be recorded by Abramson

provenance
Found at Kilham (East Yorks), August 2022

~ Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Fitzwilliam Museum~



This significant addition to the extremely limited corpus is rendered all the more impressive given its shared die status with the Abramson (II, 337) coin offered through these rooms in March 2021.

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Sold for
£19,000

Starting price
£10000