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Auction: 19025 - Ancient, Indian and Islamic, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1597

Early Anglo-Saxon England, continental issue (c. 695-740), silver Sceat, series X - 'Wodan' types, Ribe, 1.17g, Wodan head facing, cross either side, rev. beast devouring its tail (Abramson 103.10; SCBI 63 {BM}, 447; N.116; S.797), dark patina possibly suggestive of a baser fabric, nevertheless good very fine, a well-centred and boldly struck example of this popular type

provenance
Found Gloucestershire, 2018
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, ref. EMC 2018.0432

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£420