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LOT 0167
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,435
Anglo-Saxon Crondall Series - Witmen Derived - Gold Shilling (Thrymsa)
Circa 620-640 AD, Kent (Canterbury?). Obv: profile diademed bust right with three ties and trident before. Rev: cross fourchee with blundered legend, letters retrograde and inverted. 1.32 grams.
Very fine, extremely rare (most in museums).
LITERATURE:
S. 753; N. 25; Sutherland IV.ii; M (1). 21, plate 1.
FOOTNOTES:
The Crondall group comprises twelve English gold shilling (thrymsa) types represented in the famous Crondall, Hampshire, 1828 hoard (ex Lord Grantley collection and now preserved intact in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). The 'Witmen' type is named from those with the WITMEN MONITA legend and this is usually seen blundered or in abbreviated forms. The type was almost certainly struck in Kent, possibly at Canterbury.
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