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Auction: 19025 - Ancient, Indian and Islamic, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1596

Early Anglo-Saxon England, primary phase (c. 680-710), AR Sceat, Series W - 'Wessex', 1.17g, full-length figure standing facing, head turned right, holding long cross and annulet cross, rev. cross-crosslet on saltire (SCBI {Abramson} 146-48; BMC 54; Metcalf 155; N.148; S.787), a pleasing very fine, very rare

provenance
Found near Bicester, Oxfordshire, November 2018
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, ref. EMC 2018.0431

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