Unique ‘daisy’ type published by Blackburn

CNG 100, Lot: 1060. Estimate $7500. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Pale Gold Phase. Circa 650-675. Pale AV Thrymsa (11mm, 1.26 g). Type – (Daisy and Annulet Cross). Mint in South-East England. Ten-petal floral design / + oIVИ(retrograde Γ)V ΩIVMNo, cross with annulets at center and terminals, double annulet at base. Sutherland –; A&W 375 = Blackburn, “Two New Types of Anglo-Saxon Gold Shillings,” in Coinage and History in the North Sea World c. 500-1250, (Leiden: Brill, 2006), fig. 5 (this coin); Metcalf –; SCBI 63 (BM), –; North –; SCBC 764A. Good VF. Unique and important. The obverse design unparalleled in the thrymsa series.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Spink 162 (27 March 2003), lot 119. Found Bulmer Beck, North Yorkshire, 1980s.