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Auction: 25004 - British and World Coins and Medals
Lot: 10

Anglo-Saxon England, Bishops of York (c. 620-655), Gold Shilling (65% AV), York Group, Inscriptional type 2, Variety Ci, enrobed effigy facing over segmented wall, with pellet eyes and bifurcated cross form features, flanked by cross pattée in fields, rev. SANCTE VIA DCS EF(V), central cross pattée in beaded circle, 1.310g [20.22grns], 10h [?] (SCBI 69 [Abramson], 6 [and Spink Sale II, 335] same dies; A&W, type V. xxi; North 27; S.762), some peripheral striking softness and with a resultant fissure at 11 o'clock, otherwise pleasingly well-centred and uniformly bold devices, a pleasing very fine, extremely rare and of great socio-religious significance to the British numismatic record dating to the birth of Christianity on the island being struck at its epicentre

Provenance

Found at Newton, Ryedale District (North Yorkshire), by 22 July 2024

~ Recorded with the British Museum, ref. PAS-YORYM-E758CB ~

~ Recorded with the York Museum Trust, ref. E07546 ~

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Sold for
£10,000

Starting price
£8500