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Auction: 25007 - … British and World Coins and Medals featuring The Oriole Collection of Gold and Silver English Coins
Lot: 237

Northumbria, Æthelwald Moll with Archbishop Ecgberht (759-765), AR Sceat, c. 759-765, York [?], + EDILhaLD around central saltire, rev. ECGBERhT AR around central cross pattée, 1.15g [17.75grns], 6h (YMT-E07692 this coin; SCBI 69 [Abramson], 1036; EMC 2012.0036 and 2018.0322; Naismith [2017], 117; cf. Abramson [2018], 1036; North 192.5; S.853), a touch of green verdigris in the centre of obverse, otherwise of good metal, little to no porosity, very fine, a remarkable Northumbrian issue of the HIGHEST RARITY

Provenance

~ Found at Rowley, East Riding (Yorkshire and the Humber), by 9 April 2025

~ Recorded with the British Museum (ref. PAS-YORYM-64FBF9) ~

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1212448


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Estimate
£10,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£9000