LOT 8015 Nietap Type - Experimental Gold Issue
Viewed 603 Frequency
Pre-bid 0 Frequency
Name
Size
Description
Translation provided by Youdao
Circa 635-640 AD. Nietap Type, with crude obverse and reverse enigmatic designs. Cf. Plunket, S., Suffolk in Anglo-Saxon Times, p.126, item h, for a broadly similar coin from Coddenham, Suffolk.1.30 grams. ("). From the private collection of a retired Suffolk gentleman; found in Suffolk, UK. Only a few examples of such a coin are known to have been found in England, with a single example discovered in the famous Crondall hoard. The Crondall example is given by Metcalf, Thrymsas and Sceattas, Volume I, pl.3, 73, together with two plain items of gold of the same size, from the same hoard, all weighing in the vicinity of 1.29-1.3 grams, as does the coin offered here. Dr Arent Pol of the Netherland Royal Collection states that 'I regard it as continental and would therefore call it a tremissis...a few more specimens have turned up in Great Britain after the first one was found among the coins in the Crondall hoard...All these small thick coins with very crude obverse 'designs' derive from specimens struck with better preserved dies showing a head to the right (Belfort 5517, Prou 684"). For my forthcoming catalogue I labelled the group 'Nietap type' after the Dutch hoard with several specimens. Most of the coins of this type have been found on the continent...'
Preview:
Address:
Harwich, Essex, UK
Start time:
Online payment is available,
You will be qualified after paid the deposit!
Online payment is available for this session.
Bidding for buyers is available,
please call us for further information. Our hot line is400-010-3636 !
This session is a live auction,
available for online bidding and reserved bidding