Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals

Early Anglo-Saxon Period, Pale gold Thrymsa, York type, c. 630, figure facing between two crosses, chequered pattern below, rev. small cross, qvohenvled retrograde, 1.29g/2h (cf. SNC February 2007, pp.6-8; Metcalf 76; N 27; S 762). Obverse slightly off-centre, otherwise good very fine or better, excessively rare; only the second known specimen and a coin of considerable historical and numismatic importance £8,000-10,000

Tony Abramson has recently published an interpretation of the legend on this coin. Reading outwards and retrograde (except for the initial P), he interprets it as paolienvs ep, being Paulinus, the first Archbishop of York (627-33)