Spink’s Saxon marvel

IT’S been billed as the most important discovery in British numismatics for many years. Now the London auction house Spink are to offer the first newly-discovered Anglo-Saxon gold penny to come to light for almost a century.

The little coin, pictured right, which weighs just 4.33gm and measures only 3/4in (20mm) in diameter…

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