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S.768, PADA type Ia - Anglo-Saxon England, Transitional Coinage (c. 675-760), Pale Gold or Electrum Shilling, Pada type Ia, unintelligible vestigial legend, small helmeted and draped Romanised bust right, rev. MAL above Images and selected text reproduced by kind permission of Spink and Son Ltd, London, auction 21000, The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I, March 18th 2021, lot # 25. Provenance: J Philpotts, July 2010 ~ Found near Sherburn (North Yorks), 2010 ~ [EMC 2010.0248 = BNJ Coin Register 2011, no. 77]. |
(PADA in runic characters) elongated inside beaded standard, tufa below, 1.34g, 270° (cf. Rigold [BNJ, 1960], Pa1A, no. 2 [Finglesham Cemetery Find]; SL 1-10 plate coin; SCBI 69, 15 this coin; T&S 73-9, 81-3; Gannon, pp. 44, 47, 52-53, 57, 172, 184, no. 18 and Figs. 2.35, 2.42b and 5.18; North 151; Spink 768). Extremely rare.