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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 47

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, 'Saroaldo' Group, type 11, neatly modelled bust right with braided hair, diadem across forehead, lentoid eye, and crescent ear, pointed nose and pellet lips, cross pattée before, SA[R]OALDO surrounds, rev. FIT | VR in beaded standard, central pellet, recumbent S above, beaded T right, I below, tufa left enclosing pellet, 1.13g, 315° (cf. SL 12-10; SCBI 69, 136; T&S pp. 147-51, 151-4; Gannon 49, 128, 172, no. 114, 174, 177, no. 142 and 143, 184 no. 22, 185, and Fig. 4.31; EMC 1995.0091, same dies; Spink 784) a recent edge break subsequently repaired, otherwise good very fine and of the highest rarity

provenance
M Vosper, April 2008
M Bonser collection (Folio 2115/383) [via C Rudd, 2 December 1998]
~ Found by M Styles at "Tamworth Castle", near Lichfield (Staffordshire), 1995 ~
[EMC 2002.0002 = BNJ Coin Register 2002, no. 111]

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Sold for
£750

Starting price
£850