© Fitzwilliam Museum
De Wit Coin Collection
Artist: Anglo-Saxon
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum
Date: circa 630-865
Materials: gold & silver
Dimensions: various dimensions
Grant:
Amount Paid: £50,000 (Total: £275,000)
Vendor: Professor G W De Wit (through Spink)
Review number: 5883 (2007)
Provenance:
Professor G W De Wit, Rotterdam through Spink & Son, London.
Description:
This is a collection of 481 coins charting the beginnings of Anglo-Saxon coinage. The iconography of the coins is very sophisticated, often with theological themes that reflect contemporary interest during the period of the Christianisation of England. There are many interesting parallels for pictorial, zoomorphic and geometric designs found on illuminated manuscripts and stone carvings of the period.
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