CNG 106, Lot: 1073. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Pale Gold Phase. Circa 650-675. AV Thrymsa – Shilling (11.5mm, 1.25 g, 4h). ‘Two Emperors’ type. Diademed and draped bust right, crude legend around / Two small busts facing, holding two orbs between them; above, Victory with wings enfolding the figures. Sutherland Class II.T.v, 32–40 var. (unlisted dies); A&W Type V.xxvii; SCBI 63 (BM), 23–30; Metcalf 79–80; North 20; SCBC 767. EMC 2008.0450 = Coin Register 2009, 55 (this coin). VF, slightly off center, area of weak strike. Rare.

Found near Canterbury, Kent, 2008.