Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Britain has to Buy …

Richard Moss, ‘Wiltshire Museum launches 8K appeal to buy Anglo Saxon gold coin from ‘dawn of English Christianity¹‘ CXulture 24 11 November 2015

Wiltshire Museum is launching a fund-raising campaign to buy a rare gold coin dating to the beginnings of Christianity in Wiltshire.

The Anglo Saxon Gold coin was found in April 2015 at East Grafton, a Wiltshire village between Burbage and Great Bedwyn, and experts believe it was in circulation just after the burial of King Raedwald at Sutton Hoo around AD 625… The coin is being sold by Spink and Son in Bloomsbury, London, on December 2 2105 as part of an auction of ancient British and foreign coins and commemorative medals.

The name of the finder (“only interested in th’ ‘istry”) who is flogging it off is not given.

References

1. ^{^} Wiltshire Museum launches 8K appeal to buy Anglo Saxon gold coin from ‘dawn of English Christianity (www.culture24.org.uk)

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