Tony Abramson’s remarkable collection of historic Anglo-Saxon coins has sold at auction for a staggering £856,000 A finance director’s remarkable collection of historic Anglo-Saxon coins has sold at auction for a staggering £856,000. Tony Abramson, a former president of the Yorkshire Numismatic Society, started collecting coins aged four, in the 1950s. His passion developed during his … Read more
Tony Abramson’s remarkable collection of historic Anglo-Saxon coins has sold at auction for a staggering £856,000 A finance director’s remarkable collection of historic Anglo-Saxon coins has sold at auction for a staggering £856,000. Tony Abramson, a former president of the Yorkshire Numismatic Society, started collecting coins aged four, in the 1950s. His passion developed during his … Read more
Spectacular Anglo-Saxon cross that ‘belonged to a king’ is finally restored to its former glory after lying buried in a Scottish field for 1,000 years The metalwork was revealed by experts who removed dirt with a porcupine quill Was first found in 2014 in a field in west of Scotland as part of Galloway Hoard … Read more
A haul of rare gold coins unearthed in a field by a metal detectorist could be one of the earliest depictions of the English people. One of the roughly 1,500-year-old Anglo-Saxon pennies shows a figure brandishing what appears to be a trident. It is thought the minted gold image could be one of the earliest … Read more
A 1,200-year-old silver coin will go under the auction hammer for the second time in six years next week, and could break its own record to become the most expensive Anglo-Saxon coin to ever be sold at auction. The penny, found by a treasure hunter in Pevensey, East Sussex, during a hailstorm six years ago, … Read more